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Table 1 Measuring catastrophic health expenditures

From: Measuring financial protection against catastrophic health expenditures: methodological challenges for global monitoring

Headcount ratio: Share of the population spending Ï„% or more of household resources on OOP payments for health

\( \frac{\sum_h{m}_h{w}_h1\left( OOP\_{share}_h\ge \tau \right)}{\sum_h{m}_h{w}_h} \)

h denotes a household

mh denotes the number of members of household h

wh denotes the sampling weight of household h

1() is an indicator function which is equal to 1 if the condition is satisfied and 0 otherwise

Ï„ denotes a catastrophic threshold

Approach

Budget share

Capacity-to-pay

Method

Total expenditure

Non-food expenditure

Non-subsistence expenditure

OOP share

\( \frac{oop}{\mathit{\exp}} \)

\( \frac{oop}{\mathit{\exp}- food} \)

\( \frac{oop}{\mathit{\exp}- se} \)

 

oop=OOP health payments

  

exp=total expenditure

food=food expenditure

se=subsistence expenditure