Health Equity and Financial Protection Datasheets : East Asia and Pacific
The health equity and financial protection datasheets provide a picture of equity and financial protection in the health sectors of low- and middle-income countries. Topics covered include: inequalities in health outcomes, health behavior and healt...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/286331468026940690/Health-equity-and-financial-protection-datasheet-East-Asia-and-Pacific http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26858 |
| Summary: | The health equity and financial
protection datasheets provide a picture of equity and
financial protection in the health sectors of low- and
middle-income countries. Topics covered include:
inequalities in health outcomes, health behavior and health
care utilization; benefit incidence analysis; financial
protection; and the progressivity of health care financing.
This report show how health outcomes, risky behaviors and
health care utilization vary across asset (wealth) quintiles
and periods. Benefit-incidence analysis (BIA) shows whether,
and by how much, government health expenditure
disproportionately benefits the poor the distribution of
subsidies depends on the assumptions made to allocate
subsidies to households. This reports whether overall health
financing, as well as the individual sources of finance, is
regressive (i.e. a poor household contributes a larger share
of its resources than a rich one), progressive (i.e. a poor
household contributes a smaller share of its resources than
a rich one) or proportional. |
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