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Table 9 Available financial risk protection indicators and their data source

From: Indicators for Universal Health Coverage: can Kenya comply with the proposed post-2015 monitoring recommendations?

Financial risk protection coverage indicators

Indicator available

Data source

Aggregate: a measure of the level of household impoverishment arising from out of pocket expenditures on health, equal to the ratio of the poverty gap in a world without out of pocket payments to the actual poverty gap

yes

Kenya household health expenditure and utilisation survey

Aggregate: the fraction of households incurring catastrophic out of pocket health expenditures

yes

Conducted every 5 years last survey was conducted in the year 2013

Equity: The fraction of households among the poorest 40% incurring catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditures.

yes

  1. Data sourced from Ministry of Health survey report [26],[28].