Catastrophic health expenditures arising from out-of-pocket payments : evidence from South African income and expenditure surveys

dc.contributor.authorKoch, Steven F.
dc.contributor.authorSetshegetso, Naomi
dc.contributor.emailsteve.koch@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-20T03:44:38Z
dc.date.available2021-04-20T03:44:38Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-11
dc.descriptionS1 File. R File for descriptive tables. This file provides the R code for developing the descriptive statistics tables. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237217.s001en_ZA
dc.descriptionS2 File. R File for catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment tables. This file provides the R code for developing the information placed into the catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment tables; paper-cheimp.R. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237217.s002en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis study examines catastrophic health expenditures and the potential for such payments to impoverish South African households. The analysis applies three different catastrophic expenditure measurements, and we apply them across four South African Income and Expenditure Surveys. Since households have limited resources, they are also limited in their capacity to purchase health care. Thus, if a household devotes a large share of that capacity to health care, it may not be able to cover other necessary expenses, which could be catastrophic. The measurements differ in their definition of household capacity. Despite the differences in measurements, and, therefore, results, we find limited incidence of health care expenditure catastrophe, although larger shares of capacity are being devoted to health care in more recent years. In line with the finding that catastrophe is rare, we find that very few households are subsequently impoverished, because of health care costs.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentEconomicsen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2021en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.plosone.orgen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKoch SF, Setshegetso N (2020) Catastrophic health expenditures arising from outof- pocket payments: Evidence from South African income and expenditure surveys. PLoS ONE 15(8): e0237217. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237217.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1371/journal. pone.0237217
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/79500
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_ZA
dc.rights© 2020 Koch, Setshegetso. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectCatastrophic health expendituresen_ZA
dc.subjectPaymentsen_ZA
dc.subjectMeasurementsen_ZA
dc.subjectIncomeen_ZA
dc.titleCatastrophic health expenditures arising from out-of-pocket payments : evidence from South African income and expenditure surveysen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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