Financial protection from the risks of ill health has globally recognized importance as a principal performance goal of any health system. This type of financial protection involves minimizing catastrophic payments for healthcare and their associated impoverishing effects. Realization of this...

This paper analyzes the redistributive effect and progressivity associated with the current health care financing schemes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), using data from the first Palestinian Household Health Expenditure Survey conducted in 2004. The paper goes beyond the commonly...

This paper applies a new methodology to decompose the overall redistributive effect (RE) of health care finance on income distribution. Contrary to most previous studies, the RE of various financing schemes are disentangled and estimated as sample statistics to reveal the vertical and horizontal...