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Table 1 Different outcome variables modelled

From: Inputs for universal health coverage: a methodological contribution to finding proxy indicators for financial hardship due to health expenditure

Models

Definition of a household with financial hardship

 

Catastrophic health expenditure

1A - 20%

OOP ≥20% of non-subsistence expenditure

1A - 40%

OOP ≥40% of non-subsistence expenditure

1B - 20%

OOP ≥20% of non-food expenditure

1B - 40%

OOP ≥40% of non-food expenditure

 

Impoverishment

2A

Total expenditure ≥ Int$ 1.25 * Household size & Total expenditure - OOP < Int$ 1.25 * Household size

2B

Total expenditure ≥ Int$ 2.0 * Household size & Total expenditure - OOP < Int$ 2.0 * Household size

2C

Total expenditure ≥ Relative food-based poverty line * Adjusted household size & Total expenditure - OOP < Relative food-based poverty line * Adjusted household size