Catastrophic health care, poverty, and impoverishment in the Philippines

Catastrophic health care, poverty, and impoverishment in the Philippines

The paper attempts to describe catastrophic health spending and its impact on poverty in the Philippine setting. It focuses on the role of out-of-pocket payments for health care as a springboard for measuring the magnitude and analyzing the extent of damage of catastrophic health expenditures. It al...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Philippine Review of Economics Vol.45, no.1 (June 2008), p.109-126.
Main Author: Ico, Ronaldo D. (Author)
Format: Analytics
Language:English
Published: [Quezon City] School of Economics, University of the Philippines 2008.
Subjects:
Medical care > Philippines.
Medical care > Utilization > Philippines.
Medical care, Cost of > Philippines.
Health services administration > Philippines.
Public health administration > Philippines.
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