Equity of health-care financing: a progressivity analysis for Egypt

Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate the progressivity of health-care financing in Egypt by assessing all five financing sources individually and then combining them to analyze the equity of the whole financing system. Design/methodology/approach – Lorenz dominance analysis and Kakwani progressivit...

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Main Authors: Yara Ahmed, Racha Ramadan, Mohamed Fathi Sakr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing 2020-03-01
Series:Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JHASS-08-2019-0040/full/pdf?title=equity-of-health-care-financing-a-progressivity-analysis-for-egypt