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Table 1 List of variables, and their definitions, used in the analysis of Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Healthcare Foregone

From: Households forgoing healthcare as a measure of financial risk protection: an application to Liberia

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Variable

Definition

Related Questions/ Database items

Connection with other measures:

Calculation

Source

1

OOP Health Expenditure

All OOP health expenditure in last 12 months

Q10, 11, 15, 16, 20, 22 (section D)

CHE numerator

Sum of Q10, 11, 15, 16, 20, 22

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2

Total Consumption Expenditure

Food and non-food consumption per household in last 12 months

Worksheet HH consumption, item hhtexp

CHE denominator

No calculation, taken directly from database

3

Non-food consumption expenditure

Non-food consumption per household in last 12 months

Worksheet HH consumption, item nfdtexp

CHE denominator

No calculation, taken directly from database

4

Capacity to pay

Same as non-food consumption expenditure (#3)

5

CHE threshold

Threshold beyond which an OOP health expenditure is considered a CHE

n/a

 

Arbitrary values taken from literature

[31, 32, 41]

6

CHE Incidence

Households incurring CHE, out of total households

n/a

OOP health expenditure (numerator), Consumption expenditure (denominator) and threshold

1 if #1 divided by #2 or #3 is beyond #5

0 otherwise

[6, 9, 20, 29, 31, 41]

7

CHE Intensity

Average OOP health expenditure value beyond CHE threshold (for households incurring CHE)

n/a

OOP health expenditure (numerator), Consumption expenditure (denominator) and threshold

If #6 is 1: #1 divided by #2 or #3 minus #5

0 otherwise

8

Impoverishment

Households incurring CHE which were pushed below poverty line by CHE

n/a

CHE

1 if total expenditure minus OOP health expenditure is inferior to household’s poverty line, 0 otherwise

[7, 20, 31]

9

Poverty line

Consumption expenditure per household assumed to be a minimum living standard (food/non-food)

n/a

Impoverishment

Sum of adult equivalents in household, times poverty line per adult equivalent (L$65438)

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