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catastrophic health expenditure: a standalone construct

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Health economics

household out-of-pocket health spending that exceeds a threshold share of capacity to pay, pushing households toward impoverishment.

In health economics, catastrophic health expenditure refers to household out-of-pocket health spending that exceeds a threshold share of capacity to pay, pushing households toward impoverishment. This meaning comes from Xu (2003) in The Lancet.[1]

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References

Xu, K., Evans, D. B., Kawabata, K., Zeramdini, R., Klavus, J., & Murray, C. J. (2003). Household catastrophic health expenditure: a multicountry analysis. The Lancet, 362(9378), 111-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(03)13861-5

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