Paying for health care quantifying fairness, catastrophe, and impoverishment, with applications to Vietnam, 1993-98

Egalitarian concepts of fairness in health care payments (requiring that payments be linked to ability to pay) are compared with minimum standards approaches (requiring that payments not exceed a prescribed share of prepayment income or not drive households into poverty). The arguments and methods a...

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Main Author: Wagstaff, Adam
Corporate Author: World Bank Development Research Group
Other Authors: Doorslaer, Eddy van
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C World Bank, Development Research Group, Public Services for Human Development 2001
Series:Policy research working paper
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Summary:Egalitarian concepts of fairness in health care payments (requiring that payments be linked to ability to pay) are compared with minimum standards approaches (requiring that payments not exceed a prescribed share of prepayment income or not drive households into poverty). The arguments and methods are illustrated using data and out-of-pocket health spending in Vietnam in 1993 and 1998
Item Description:"November 2001. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 34-36). - Title from title screen as viewed on Aug. 24, 2002