Hardship financing, productivity loss, and the economic cost of illness and injury in Cambodia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Financial risk protection is a core dimension of universal health coverage. Hardship financing, defined as borrowing and selling land or assets to pay for healthcare, is a measure of last recourse. Increasing indebtedness and high interest rates, particularly among unregulated money lenders, can lead to a vicious cycle of poverty and exacerbate inequity.

Methods

To inform efforts to improve Cambodia's social health protection system we analyze 2019-2020 Cambodia Socio-economic Survey data to assess hardship financing, illness and injury related productivity loss, and estimate related economic impacts. We apply two-stage Instrumental Variable multiple regression to address endogeneity relating to net income. In addition, we calculate a direct economic measure to fa

SUBMITTER: Kolesar RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10559627 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature