Coping with out-of-pocket health payments: empirical evidence from 15 African countries

OBJECTIVE: To explore factors associated with household coping behaviours in the face of health expenditures in 15 African countries and provide evidence for policy-makers in designing financial health protection mechanisms. METHODS: A series of logit regressions were performed to explore factors co...

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Main Authors: Adam Leive, Ke Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2008-11-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862008001100014&lng=en&tlng=en