Protecting households from high out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for health care is an important health system goal. High OOP payments can push households into poverty and make them vulnerable to catastrophic health expenditures. This study, based in India, aims to: (a) estimate OOP payments for health and related impoverishment across economic groups; (b) decompose OOP payments and relate the cont...

Parents play major roles in determining the human capital of children, and thus the income of children when they become adults. Models of investments in children’s human capital posit that these investments are determined by parental resources (financial and human capital) and child endowments within particular market and policy environments. Many empirical studies are consistent with significa...

In the absence of formal health insurance, we argue that the strategies households adopt to finance health care have important implications for the measurement and interpretation of how health payments impact on consumption and poverty. Given data on source of finance, we propose to (a) approximate the relative impact of health payments on current consumption with a 'coping'-adjusted health exp...

A stable financial system can build a country's economy. Financial inclusion is one of the strategies undertaken to improve economy and alleviate poverty. Poverty troubling problem for every country. Both developing developed countries face Therefore, poverty must be eradicated immediately. This study analyzes in alleviation five lower-middle-income (Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos, Pakistan, Banglade...

Hispanics are a rapidly growing population in Massachusetts, but little is known about the health, nutrition, and economic situation of the elder segment of these groups. In this report, we examine factors associated with poverty and the use of food assistance programs, using data from an NIA-funded project on Hispanic elders in Massachusetts. Poverty is shown to be a major problem with differe...

Correspondence address: East-West Center, Research Program Population and Health Studies 1601 East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96848-1601, USA Telephone: (808) 944-7482 Fax: (808) 944-7490 E-mail: [email protected] Internet site: www.ewc.hawaii.edu developing economies of East and Southeast Asia, increasing financial hardship for the poor. Although South Asia did not suffer to the same extent f...

BACKGROUND There is a global concern regarding how households could be protected from relatively large healthcare payments which are a major limitation to accessing healthcare. Such payments also endanger the welfare of households with the potential of moving households into extreme impoverishment. This paper examines the impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare payments in Ghana...

Poverty and Mental Health of Children and Adolescents Pratap Sharan, MD, PhD Address for Correspondence: Professor Pratap Sharan, Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029. Email: [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________________________________ The bidirectional relationship between poor mental health an...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update on the development long-term relative poverty rate in Europe. We use European Statistics Income and Living Conditions data (EU-SILC) for 26 countries between 2009 2018. In addition describing poverty, we also analyse drivers country level via fixed effects panel regression analysis. are particularly interested how economic growth, employment rat...