Eddy van Doorslaer, Owen O’Donnell, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
Background Conventional estimates of poverty do not take account of out-of-pocket payments to finance health care. We aimed to reassess measures of poverty in 11 low-to-middle income countries in Asia by calculating total household resources both with and without out-of-pocket payments for health ca...
Eddy van Doorslaer, Owen O’Donnell, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care throughout much of Asia. We estimate the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in fourteen countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population. We focus on payments that are catastroph...
Owen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
We estimate the distributional incidence of health care financing in 13 Asian territories that account for 55% of the Asian population. In all territories, higher-income households contribute more to the financing of health care. The better-off contribute more as a proportion of ability to pay in mo...
Owen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across 11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcare concentration curves against an equal distribution and Lorenz curves and across countries. The analysis reveals that the distribution of public healthcare is prorich i...