Catastrophic illness expense: Implications for national health policy in the United States

Schwartz, Michael; Naierman, Naomi; Birnbaum, H.K.

doi:10.1016/0160-7979(78)90051-6

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“…This new interest may be because reality is changing fast in developing countries. Indeed, over recent years, liberalization and marketization in many developing countries are leading to higher health services fees and higher liquidity of assets, creating a situation known in the US, where catastrophic health expenditure was identified as a serious problem decades ago (Schwartz et al. 1978; Birnbaum et al.…”

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Out‐of‐pocket health expenditure and debt in poor households: evidence from Cambodia

Damme

Leemput²,

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et al. 2004

Tropical Med Int Health

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Summaryobjectives To document how out-of-pocket health expenditure can lead to debt in a poor rural area in Cambodia.methods After a dengue epidemic, 72 households with a dengue patient were interviewed to document health-seeking behaviour, out-of-pocket expenditure, and how they financed such expenditure. One year later, a follow-up visit investigated how the 26 households with an initial debt had coped with it.

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confidence: 99%