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

Abstract Introduction Access to Liberia’s health system is reliant on out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditures which may prevent people from seeking care or result in catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). CHE and impoverishment due to OOP, which are used by the World Bank and World Health Organizati...

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Main Authors: Jacopo Gabani, Lorna Guinness
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-019-1095-y