Multimorbidity, healthcare use and catastrophic health expenditure by households in India: a cross-section analysis of self-reported morbidity from national sample survey data 2017-18

• Main Authors: Anup Karan (Author), Habib Hasan Farooqui (Author), Suhaib Hussain (Author), Mohammad Akhtar Hussain (Author), Sakthivel Selvaraj (Author), Manu Raj Mathur (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Background The purpose of this research is to generate new evidence on the economic consequences of multimorbidity on households in terms of out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures and their implications for catastrophic OOP expenditure. Methods We analyzed Social Consumption Health data from Nati...