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

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 96, Issue , 2013, Pages 258-263

  Van Minh, Hoang ^a   Kim Phuong, Nguyen Thi ^b   Saksena, Priyanka ^b   James, Chris D ^b   Xu, Ke ^b  

^a HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Financial burden; Health; Out of pocket payment; Viet Nam

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

AGING; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FINANCIAL BURDEN; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; OUT OF POCKET HEALTH EXPENDITURE; POVERTY; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIET NAM; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY SIZE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

VIET NAM;

COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VIETNAM;

EID: 84883741982     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.11.028     Document Type: Article

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