Measuring income for catastrophic cost estimates: Limitations and policy implications of current approaches.

ABSTRACT: There is increasing global policy interest in estimating catastrophic costs incurred by households because of ill health, and growing need for information on disease-specific household cost data. There are several methodological approaches used to estimate income and no current consensus on the best method for estimating income in the context of a survey at the health facility. We compared six different approaches to estimate catastrophic cost among patients attending a health facility in South Africa. We used patient cost and income data collected June 2014-March 2015 from 66 participants enrolled in a clinical trial in South Africa (TB FastTrack) to explore the variation arising from different income estimation approaches and compared the number of households encountering catastrophic co

SUBMITTER: Sweeney S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6171470 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature