Financial catastrophe and poverty impacts of out-of-pocket health payments in Turkey

European Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 255-270

  Özgen Narcı, Hacer ^a   Şahin, İsmet ^b   Yıldırım, Hasan Hüseyin ^b  

^a ACIBADEM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Catastrophic health expenditure; Out of pocket health payment; Poverty; Turkey

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; POVERTY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TURKEY;

FINANCING, PERSONAL; HUMANS; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TURKEY;

EID: 84894263869     PISSN: 16187598     EISSN: 16187601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-014-0570-z     Document Type: Article

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