Catastrophic health expenditure during the COVID-19 pandemic in five countries: a time-series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted health systems in 2020, but it is unclear how financial hardship due to out-of-pocket (OOP) health-care costs was affected. We analysed catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) in 2020 in five countries with available household expenditure data: Belarus, Mexico, Peru, Russia, and Viet Nam. In Mexico and Peru, we also conducted an analysis of drivers of change in CHE in 2020 using publicly available data.

Methods

In this time-series analysis, we defined CHE as when OOP health-care spending exceeds 10% of consumption expenditure. Data for 2004-20 were obtained from individual and household level survey microdata (available for Mexico and Peru only), and tabulated data from the National Statistical Committee of Belarus and the World Bank

SUBMITTER: Haakenstad A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10522803 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature