An empirical evaluation of the performance of financial protection indicators for UHC monitoring: Evidence from Burkina Faso.

ABSTRACT: Achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has been recognized as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and includes both ensuring access to health services and providing financial protection (FP) against using these services. Currently, progress towards achieving the FP component of UHC is assessed using the catastrophic health expenditure budget share indicator, which estimates the proportion of the population with health expenditures exceeding 10% of total income or consumption. Other indicators exist, however, and are widely used in the literature, yet few studies have compared the usefulness of these indicators for UHC monitoring. Using panel data from Burkina Faso, this paper seeks to evaluate the performance of common FP indicators based on three properties: (1) their abili

SUBMITTER: Sas Trakinsky B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10297743 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature