idiosyncratic health shocks is met by reductions in savings, asset sales and especially a far greater reliance on borrowing as … notably absent in the case of health shocks. Across all shock types, households do not rely on gifts from family and friends … or on enhancing their labour supply as coping approaches. The relative insensitivity of food consumption to health shocks …

Between 2000 and 2011, Ethiopia rapidly expanded its health-care infrastructure recording an 18-fold increase in the … number of health posts and a 7-fold increase in the number of health centers. However, annual per capita outpatient … utilization has increased only marginally. The extent to which individuals forego necessary health care, especially why and who …