The role of consumer choice in out-of-pocket spending on health

Abstract Background Analyses of out-of-pocket healthcare spending often suffer from an inability to distinguish necessary from optional spending in the data without making further assumptions. We propose a two-dimensional rating of the spending categories often available in household budget survey d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Laura Nübler, Reinhard Busse, Martin Siegel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-01-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01838-1