Which indicator should be used? A comparison between the incidence and intensity of catastrophic health expenditure: using difference-in-difference analysis

Abstract Background Catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) represents out-of-pocket payment as a share of household income. Most previous studies have focused on incidence aspects when assessing health policy effects. However, because CHE incidence is a binary variable, the effect of the health polic...

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Published in:	Health Economics Review
Main Authors:	Jun Hyuk Koo, Hyun Woo Jung
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2022-11-01
Subjects:	Catastrophic health expenditure Health policy Out-of-pocket medical expenditures Difference-in-difference analysis Propensity score matching
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-022-00403-w