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Despite the fact that healthcare spending in Kazakhstan increased annually from 2011 to 2020, the country's healthcare … system is seriously underfunded. For this reason, household spending in Kazakhstan plays a significant role in overall health … Government of Kazakhstan needs to take decisive measures to reduce the "out-of-pocket expense" of the population for health care …
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Like other countries seeking a progressive path to universalism, Peru has attempted to reduce inequalities in access to healthcare by granting the poor entitlement to tax-financed basic care without charge. We identify the impact of this policy by comparing the target populationś change in...
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This paper provides an overview of research on out-of-pocket health expenditures, reviewing the various summary measures and the results of multi-country studies using these measures. The paper presents estimates for 146 countries from all World Bank income groups for all summary measures, along...
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This study examines the effects of urbanization on household health expenditure. Using a unique bi-annually household-level dataset from 2012-2016 from Vietnam, we obtain key findings as follows. To mitigate possible endogeneity concerns, we utilize a two-stage least squares regression (2SLS)...
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