This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …

This paper shows how value judgments can be explicitly recognized in measuring health ineqalities between the poor and … the better-off, and how such inequalities can be included in assessments of countries' health indicators …

health, is concentrated among the worst off. Yet targets are still defined in terms of population averages. Consider, then …

This paper looks at differential progress on the health Millennium Development Goals between the poor and better …-off within countries. The findings are based on original analysis of 235 Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator … Cluster Surveys, spanning 64 developing countries over the period 1990-2011. Five health status indicators and seven …

lead to income losses that are sizeable compared with the income losses associated with non-health shocks. Health shocks …In Laos health shocks are more common than most other shocks and more concentrated among the poor. They tend to be more … idiosyncratic than non-health shocks, and are more costly, partly because they lead to high medical expenses, but also because they …

"The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes …, health care utilization, and non-medical household consumption. The use of panel data collected before and after the … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …

health sectors of low-and middle-income countries. Topics covered include: inequalities in health outcomes, health behavior …The health equity and financial protection datasheets provide a picture of equity and financial protection in the … and health care utilization; benefit incidence analysis; financial protection; and the progressivity of health care …

health sectors of low-and middle-income countries. Topics covered include: inequalities in health outcomes, health behavior …The health equity and financial protection datasheets provide a picture of equity and financial protection in the … and health care utilization; benefit incidence analysis; financial protection; and the progressivity of health care …