@techreport{c51c53b41a934e728a8394cab7a7c3c7,
title = "Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Household Well-Being",
abstract = "According to the catastrophic health expenditure methodology a household is in catastrophe if its health out-of-pocket budget share exceeds a critical threshold. We develop a conceptual framework for addressing three questions in relation to this methodology, namely: 1. Can a budget share be informative about the sign of a change in welfare? 2. Is there a positive association between a household's poverty shortfall and its health out-of-pocket budget share? 3. Does an increase in population coverage of a health insurance scheme always result in a reduction of the prevalence of catastrophic expenditures?",
keywords = "performance of health insurance schemes, poverty, Catastrophic health expenditure, welfare change",
author = "{Abul Naga}, {Ramses H.} and Karine Lamiraud",
year = "2009",
language = "English",
series = "Bath Economics Research Working Papers",
publisher = "Department of Economics, University of Bath",
number = "3/09",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "Department of Economics, University of Bath",
}