Assessment of the validity and reliability of an urban household health expenditure (HHE) questionnaire in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Main Authors: Murallitharan Munisamy (Author), Tharini Thanapalan (Author), Pattaraporn Piwong (Author), Alessio Panza (Author), Sathirakorn Pongpanich (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: College of Public Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Purpose - Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments continue to be a major method of financing healthcare in many low- and middle-income countries including Malaysia. Although macro-level data show that this is a substantial percentage of national health expenditure, at the grassroots level, the amount spent on...