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SUBMITTER: Koch SF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7418962 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20200811 8
This study examines catastrophic health expenditures and the potential for such payments to impoverish South African households. The analysis applies three different catastrophic expenditure measurements, and we apply them across four South African Income and Expenditure Surveys. Since households have limited resources, they are also limited in their capacity to purchase health care. Thus, if a household devotes a large share of that capacity to health care, it may not be able to cover other nec ...[more]