The role of consumer choice in out-of-pocket spending on health

Abstract Background Analyses of out-of-pocket healthcare spending often suffer from an inability to distinguish necessary from optional spending in the data without making further assumptions. We propose a two-dimensional rating of the spending categories often available in household budget survey d...

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Published in:	International Journal for Equity in Health
Main Authors:	Laura Nübler, Reinhard Busse, Martin Siegel
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2023-01-01
Subjects:	Out-of-pocket spending on health Kakwani index Consumer choice Policy analysis Decomposition analysis Health insurance
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01838-1