Financial protection and universal health coverage in Georgia: an analysis of impoverishing healthcare costs using household income and expenditure surveys .

ABSTRACT:

Background

Financial protection, an important objective of universal health coverage, ensures that individuals can access necessary healthcare without financial hardship. It is typically assessed through two indicators: catastrophic out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending and impoverishing health spending. Despite the introduction of Georgia's Universal Health Coverage Programme (UHCP) in 2013, which covers nearly 90% of the population, the incidence of impoverishing and catastrophic health spending remains high compared with other European countries and has not changed much over the past decade.

Objective

This study aims to identify the factors associated with impoverishing health expenditures among Georgian households to inform financing policy decisions and prevent individual

SUBMITTER: Gorgodze T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12306471 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature