Paying for Health Care : Quantifying Fairness, Catastrophe, and Impoverishment, with Applications to Vietnam, 1993-98

Paying for Health Care : Quantifying Fairness, Catastrophe, and Impoverishment, with Applications to Vietnam, 1993-98

The authors compare egalitarian concepts of fairness in health care payments (requiring that payments be linked to ability to pay) and minimum standards approaches (requiring that payments not exceed a prespecified share of prepayment income or not...

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Main Authors: Wagstaff, Adam, van Doorslaer, Eddy
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
BASE YEAR
BENCHMARK
CD
CLINICS
DEREGULATION
DOCTORS
EXERCISES
EXPENDITURES
FAMILIES
GINI COEFFICIENT
HEALTH CARE
HEALTH CARE COSTS
HEALTH CARE FINANCING
HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION
HEALTH CENTERS
HEALTH COSTS
HEALTH FINANCING
HEALTH FOR ALL
HEALTH INSURANCE
HEALTH POLICY
HEALTH SECTOR
HEALTH SERVICES
HEALTH STATUS
HEALTH SYSTEM
HEALTH SYSTEMS
HORIZONTAL EQUITY
HOSPITAL CARE
HOSPITAL COSTS
INCOME
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME GROUPS
INPATIENT CARE
INSURANCE
INSURANCE SYSTEMS
LIVING STANDARDS
LORENZ CURVE
MEDICAL CARE
MEDICINES
MOTIVATION
OFFSETTING
OUTPATIENT CARE
POLICY RESEARCH
PREPAYMENT
PUBLIC HOSPITALS
PUBLIC SECTOR
SOCIAL INSURANCE
SUBSTITUTION
VALUE JUDGMENTS
VERTICAL EQUITY
WORKERS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/11/1637735/paying-health-care-quantifying-fairness-catastrophe-impoverishment-applications-vietnam-1993-98
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19429

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/11/1637735/paying-health-care-quantifying-fairness-catastrophe-impoverishment-applications-vietnam-1993-98
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19429

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