Measuring Financial Protection in Health in Brazil: Catastrophic and Poverty Impacts of Health Care Payments Using the Latest National Household Consumption Survey

• Main Authors: Edson Correia Araujo (Author), Bernardo Dantas Pereira Coelho (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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This paper measures financial protection in health in Brazil by estimating the incidence and describes the profile of catastrophic expenditures and impoverishment due to household out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending. It uses the latest Brazilian consumption survey (POF 2017/2018) to analyze the comp...