Effect of specificity of health expenditure questions in the measurement of out-of-pocket health expenditure: evidence from field experimental study in Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The effect of number of health items on out-of-pockets (OOPs) has been identified as a source of bias in measuring OOPs. Evidence comes mostly from cross-sectional comparison of different survey instruments to collect data on OOPs. Very few studies have attempted to validate these questionnaires, or distinguish bias arising from the comprehensiveness of the OOPs list versus specificity of OOPs questions.

Objectives

This study aims to estimate biases arising from the specificity of OOPs questions by comparing provider and household's information.

Methods

A generic questionnaire to collect data on household's OOPs was developed following the nomenclature proposed in division 6 of the classification of household final consumption 2018. The four categories with

SUBMITTER: Agorinya IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8098927 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature