Catastrophic health care, poverty and impoverishment in the Philippines

• Main Author: Ico, Ronaldo D.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2008
• Subjects: Public health administration—Philippines; Philippines—Economic conditions—1986-; Health Policy; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6900
• Institution: De La Salle University

The paper attempts to describe catastrophic health spending and its impact on poverty in the Philippine setting. It focuses on the role of out-of-pocket payments for health care as a springboard for measuring the magnitude and analysing the extent of damage of catastrophic health expenditures. It al...