Financial burden of household out-of pocket health expenditure in Viet Nam: findings from the National Living Standard Survey 2002-2010.

Van Minh, Hoang; T. Kim Phuong, N.; Saksena, P.; James, C.; Xu, Ke

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.11.028

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Financial burden of household out-of pocket health expenditure in Viet Nam: findings from the National Living Standard Survey 2002-2010.

Published in Social science & medicine • Nov 1, 2013

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Hoang Van Minh

N. T. Kim Phuong

P. Saksena

Abstract

In Viet Nam, household direct out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditure as a share of the total health expenditure has been always high, ranging from 50% to 70%. The high share of OOP expenditure has been linked to different inequity problems such as catastrophic health expenditure (households must red...

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Medicine

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