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medical poverty trap: a standalone construct

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the cycle in which illness and out-of-pocket health payments push households into poverty, and poverty in turn raises illness and limits access to care.

In global health, medical poverty trap refers to the cycle in which illness and out-of-pocket health payments push households into poverty, and poverty in turn raises illness and limits access to care. This meaning comes from Whitehead (2001) in The Lancet.[1]

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Whitehead, M., Dahlgren, G., & Evans, T. (2001). Equity and health sector reforms: can low-income countries escape the medical poverty trap? The Lancet, 358(9284), 833-836. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(01)05975-x

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