Household catastrophic health expenditure for COVID-19 during March-August 2021, in South India: a cross-sectional study

• Main Authors: Elumalai Rajalakshmi (Author), Akhil Sasidharan (Author), Bhavani Shankara Bagepally (Author), Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar (Author), Ponnaiah Manickam (Author), T. S. Selva Vinayagam (Author), P. Sampath (Author), K Parthipan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic increased the utilisation of healthcare services. Such utilization could lead to higher out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) and catastrophic health expenditures (CHE). We estimated OOPE and the proportion of households that experience...