Do poor people in the poorer states pay more for healthcare in India?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rising health spending is associated with high out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE), catastrophic health spending (CHS), increasing poverty, and impoverishment. Though studies have examined poverty and impoverishment effect of health spending in India, there is limited research on the regional patterns of health spending by type of health centers. This paper tests the hypothesis that the poor people from the poorer states of India pay significantly more for hospitalization in public health centers than those in the richer states of India.

Methods

Data from the Social Consumption of Health Survey (71st round, 2014), carried out by the National Sample Survey (NSS) is used in the analyses. Descriptive statistics, log-linear regression model and tobit model were used to e

SUBMITTER: Dash A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6668144 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature