Socio-economic status and household catastrophic health expenditure in urban Argentina

Objectives: is to explore the socioeconomic determinants of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure in Argentina in order to be able to capture the distribution of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) among health coverage. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on the Household Expen...

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Autor principal: Mac Mullen, Mercedes
Otros Autores: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella 2017
Materias:
Health care
Econometría
Argentina
Tesis
Acceso en línea:http://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/utdt/1958
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topic Health care
Econometría
Argentina
Tesis
spellingShingle Health care
Econometría
Argentina
Tesis
Mac Mullen, Mercedes
Socio-economic status and household catastrophic health expenditure in urban Argentina
description Objectives: is to explore the socioeconomic determinants of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure in Argentina in order to be able to capture the distribution of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) among health coverage. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on the Household Expenditure Survey for 2012/2013. Using the households capacity to pay (CTP) the proportion of households with CHE was estimated as those households that face health out-of-pocket above 40% of their CTP. A logistic regression was used to identify the determinants of CHE. To measure socioeconomic status a composite wealth index was calculated. Results: The final sample included 20,699 households. The main determinants were having a senior member [OR=2.14 (1.40-3.28)], senior head of house hold [OR=0.46 (0.29-0.74)] and employment status [OR=0.63 (0.49-0.80)]. Stratified analysis by health coverage was not statistically significant. Conclusions: There are few households that had health OOP above 40% of their capacity to pay, over 97% of the households had OOP that were below this threshold. Moreover, only 51% of the households incurred in out-of-pocket health payments. Impoverishment rate after OOP payments was 0.8%, higher for the lower quintiles.
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title Socio-economic status and household catastrophic health expenditure in urban Argentina
title_short Socio-economic status and household catastrophic health expenditure in urban Argentina
title_full Socio-economic status and household catastrophic health expenditure in urban Argentina
title_fullStr Socio-economic status and household catastrophic health expenditure in urban Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Socio-economic status and household catastrophic health expenditure in urban Argentina
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publisher Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
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