-government poverty rates climb by three to four percentage points once we account for households’ medical expenses. We find that …

Background: The Nigeria's National Health Insurance Scheme aimed at making health care accessible and affordable since … exploring the dynamics in catastrophic health expenditure proportion, associated factors, inequality concentration, inequality … size, together with decomposition using a longer period Nigeria panel household survey datasets is very scarce. Methods …

) to assess the redistributive effects of direct healthcare financing in Nigeria. This new framework makes it possible not … inequality but also a novel concepts of horizontal inequity and re-ranking. The empirical results indicate that when the decision … to utilize healthcare is always linked to the decision to pay for healthcare, as is the case in Nigeria, out …