Financial burden of transient morbidity: A case study of slums in Delhi

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 46, Issue 33, 2011, Pages 59-66

  Chowdhury, Samik ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND POLICY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859364269     PISSN: 00129976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Baeza, C and T G Packard (2005): Beyond Survival: Protecting Households from the Impoverishing Effects of Health Shocks in Latin America (World Bank: Stanford University Press).
2. Banerjee, A, A Deaton and E Duflo (2004): "Healthcare Delivery in Rural Rajasthan", Economic & Political Weekly, Vol 39, No 9, pp 944-49.
3. Berki, S (1986): "A Look at Catastrophic Medical Expenses and the Poor", Health Affairs: 138-45. (Pubitemid 17000500)
4. Berman, Peter, R Ahuja and L Bhandari (2010): "The Impoverishing Effect of Healthcare Payments in India: New Methodology and Findings", Economic & Political Weekly, Vol XLV, No 16.
5. Chambers, R (1983): Rural Development: Putting the Last First (London: Longman).
6. Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (2001): "Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development", World Health Organisation, Geneva.
7. Dercon, S and P Krishnan (2000): "In Sickness and in Health: Risk-sharing within Households in Rural Ethiopia", Journal of Political Economy, 108(4): 688-727.
8. Gertler, P and J Gruber (2002): "Insuring Consumption against Illness", American Economic Review, 92(1): 51-76.
9. Gol (2009): "National Health Accounts-India, 2004-05", NHA Cell, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
10. Gumber, A (2002): "Structure of the Indian Healthcare Market: Implications for Health Insurance Sector", Regional Health Forum, Vol 4.
11. Kawabata, K and K Xu (2002): "Preventing Impoverishment through Protection against Catastrophic Expenditure", Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 80:612.
12. Krishna, A (2004): "Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor: Who Gains, Who Loses, and Why?" World Development, 32(1): 121-36. (Pubitemid 38003105)
13. Krishnan, T N (2000): "Access to Healthcare and Burden of Treatment in India: An Interstate Comparison" in Rao (ed.), Disinvesting in Health (New Delhi: Sage Publications), pp 212-30.
14. Limwattananon, S, V Tangcharoensathien and P Pra-kongsai (2007): "Catastrophic and Poverty Impacts of Health Payments: Results from National Household Surveys in Thailand", Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, 85:600-06. (Pubitemid 47328203)
15. Lindelow, M and A Wagstaff (2005): "Health Shocks in China: Are the Poor and Uninsured Less Protected?", Policy Research Working Paper Series #3740, World Bank.
16. Meesen, B and Z Zang (2003): "Iatrogenic Poverty", Tropical Medicine and International Health, 8(7): 581-84.
17. NSS (1992): "Morbidity and Utilisation of Medical Services", 42nd Round July 1986-June 1987, Sarvekshana, April 1992:55-75 S134-S.
18. - (1998): "Morbidity and Treatment of Ailments", Report No 441, Department of Statistics, CSO.
19. OECD and WHO (2003): "DAC Guidelines and Reference Series - Poverty and Health" (Paris: OECD Publishing), available at http://whqlibdoc.who. int/publications/2oo3/924i562366.pdf
20. Pradhan, M and N Prescott (2002): "Social Risk Management Options for Medical Care in Indonesia", Health Economics, 11:431-46. (Pubitemid 34752614)
21. Rajaratnam, J, R Abel, S Duraisamy and K R John (1996): "Morbidity Pattern, Healthcare Utilisation and Per Capita Health Expenditure in a Rural Population of Tamil Nadu", National Medical Journal of India, Vol 9, pp 259-62. (Pubitemid 127562748)
22. Ranson, M K (2002): "Reduction of Catastrophic Healthcare Expenditures by a Community-based Health Insurance Scheme in Gujarat, India: Current Experiences and Challenges", Bulletin of the WorldHealth Organisation, 80 (8), 613-21.
23. Russell, S (2004): "The Economic Burden of Illness for Households in Developing Countries: A Review of Studies Focusing on Malaria, Tuberculosis, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome", American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 71 (Supp 2): 147-55.
24. van Doorslaer E, O O'Donnell, R P Rannan-Eliya, A Somanathan, S R Adhikari and B Akkazieva et al (2005): "Paying Out-of-Pocket for Healthcare in Asia: Catastrophic and Poverty Impact", EQUI-TAP Working Paper 2, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, available at http://www.equitap.org
25. van Doorslaer, E, O O'Donnell and R Rannan-Eliya (2007): "Catastrophic Expenditures on Healthcare in Asia", Health Economics, 21 February.
26. Visaria, Pravin and A Gumber (1994): "Utilisation of and Expenditure on Health Care in India", unpublished report, Gujarat Institute for Development Research.
27. Wagstaff, A (2005): "The Economic Consequences of Health Shocks", World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, WPS3644.
28. Wagstaff, A and E van Doorslaer (2003): "Catastrophe and Impoverishment in Paying for Health Care: With Application to Vietnam 1993-98", Health Economics, 12 (11): 921-33.
29. - (2001): "Paying for Healthcare: Quantifying Fairness, Catastrophe and Impoverishment with Applications to Vietnam 1993-98", World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No 2715.
30. Whitehead, M, G Dahlgreen and T Evans (2001): "Equity and Health Sector Reforms: Can Low Income Countries Escape the Medical Poverty Trap?" Lancet, 358,833-36. (Pubitemid 32868741)
31. World Bank (2008): "Quantitative Techniques for Health Equity Analysis", Technical Note # 19.
32. Wyszewianski, L (1986): "Financially Catastrophic and High Cost Cases: Definitions, Distinctions and Their Implications for Policy Formulation", Inquiry, 23(4): 382-94. (Pubitemid 17000098)
33. Xu K, D B Evans, K Kawabata, R Zeramdini, J Klavus and C J L Murray (2003): "Household Catastrophic Health Expenditure: A Multicountry Analysis", The Lancet, 362,12 July.
34. Xu, K, D B Evans, G Carrin, A M Aguilar-Rivera, P Musgrove and T Evans (2007): "Protecting Households from Catastrophic Health Spending", Health Affairs, 26(4): 972-83.