Catastrophic health‐care payments and multidimensional poverty: Are they related?

• DOI: 10.1002/hec.4684
• Publication Date: 2023-04-06T04:35:32Z
• Authors: Mónica Pinilla‐Ro...; Jeannette Liliana...; Gustavo Cedeño‐Oc...; Paul Rodríguez‐Le...; Carlos Sepúlveda
• Keywords: Financing, Personal; Family Characteristics; Cross-Sectional Studies; 8. Economic growth; 1. No poverty; Humans; Health Expenditures; 10. No inequality; Poverty

Abstract The negative impact of health‐related out‐of‐pocket (OOP) payments is a well‐known problem in low and middle‐income countries (LMICs). Cross‐sectional analysis reveals that households use different coping mechanisms to mitigate or overcome the effect OOP payments, but little known from longitudinal perspective. We explore this link using panel data for Colombia, Mexico, India, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania. Using fixed‐effect model, we computed association between multidimensional poverty (MP) facing catastrophic health (CHP) capacity‐to‐pay approach. estimated heterogeneous effects, including variables such as area residence, CHP, being poor first wave, CHP period two. While cross‐sectional data, found MP present six seven countries; it not case time variation most them. results provide evidence induce long‐term on only India Nigeria. In last two countries, levels were highest all seven, both situations was by cutoffs thresholds define CHP.