Health shocks, medical insurance and household vulnerability: Evidence from South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

South Africa has a dual system of healthcare model differentiated across socio-economic lines. While on the one hand there exists high quality private facilities that is expensive and accessible to the minority, on the other is the free but stretched and over-crowded public healthcare that the rest of the population relies on. Accessing private facilities requires private medical insurance or requires coping strategies that can lead to household vulnerability.

Objective

The objective of this study is to analyse the relationship between health shocks and household vulnerability in the South African context of high poverty and low medical insurance penetration rate.

Data

The study employs data from waves three to five of South Africa's nationally representati

SUBMITTER: Morudu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7006899 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature