Measuring Financial Protection in Health in Brazil: Catastrophic and Poverty Impacts of Health Care Payments Using the Latest National Household Consumption Survey

This paper measures financial protection in health in Brazil by estimating the incidence and describes the profile of catastrophic expenditures and impoverishment due to household out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending. It uses the latest Brazilian consumption survey (POF 2017/2018) to analyze the comp...

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Main Authors: Edson Correia Araujo, Bernardo Dantas Pereira Coelho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021-07-01
Series:Health Systems & Reform
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23288604.2021.1957537