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Alejandro N. Herrin
Researcher at University of the Philippines
Publications - 31
Citations - 1916
Alejandro N. Herrin is an academic researcher from University of the Philippines. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Health care. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 31 publications receiving 1781 citations. Previous affiliations of Alejandro N. Herrin include University of the Philippines Diliman.
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Effect of payments for health care on poverty estimates in 11 countries in Asia: an analysis of household survey data.
Eddy van Doorslaer,Owen O'Donnell,Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya,Aparnaa Somanathan,Shiva Raj Adhikari,Charu C. Garg,Deni Harbianto,Alejandro N. Herrin,Mohammed N. Huq,Shamsia Ibragimova,Anup Karan,Chiu Wan Ng,Badri Raj Pande,Rachel H. Racelis,Sihai Tao,Keith Y.K. Tin,Kanjana Tisayaticom,Laksono Trisnantoro,Chitpranee Vasavid,Yuxin Zhao +19 more
TL;DR: The overall prevalence of absolute poverty in these countries was 14% higher than conventional estimates that do not take account of out-of-pocket payments for health care, and policies to reduce the number of Asians living on less than 1 dollar per day need to include measures to reduce such payments.
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Catastrophic payments for health care in Asia
Eddy van Doorslaer,Owen O'Donnell,R.P. Rannan-Eliya,Aparnaa Somanathan,Shiva Raj Adhikari,Charu C. Garg,Deni Harbianto,Alejandro N. Herrin,Mohammed N. Huq,Shamsia Ibragimova,Anup Karan,Tae-jin Lee,Gabriel M. Leung,Jui-fen Rachel Lu,Chiu Wan Ng,Badri Raj Pande,Rachel H. Racelis,Sihai Tao,Keith Y.K. Tin,Kanjana Tisayaticom,Laksono Trisnantoro,Chitpranee Vasavid,Yuxin Zhao +22 more
TL;DR: This work estimates the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in fourteen countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population and focuses on payments that are catastrophic, in the sense of severely disrupting household living standards, and approximate such payments by those absorbing a large fraction of household resources.
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Who pays for health care in Asia
Owen O'Donnell,Eddy van Doorslaer,Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya,Aparnaa Somanathan,Shiva Raj Adhikari,Baktygul Akkazieva,Deni Harbianto,Charu C. Garg,Piya Hanvoravongchai,Alejandro N. Herrin,Mohammed N. Huq,Shamsia Ibragimova,Anup Karan,Soonman Kwon,Gabriel M. Leung,Jui-fen Rachel Lu,Yasushi Ohkusa,Badri Raj Pande,Rachel H. Racelis,Keith Y.K. Tin,Kanjana Tisayaticom,Laksono Trisnantoro,Quan Wan,Bong-Min Yang,Yuxin Zhao +24 more
TL;DR: This work estimates the distributional incidence of health care financing in 13 Asian territories that account for 55% of the Asian population and finds that in most low-/middle-income countries, the better-off not only pay more, they also get more health care.
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Paying out-of-pocket for health care in Asia: Catastrophic and poverty impact
Eddy van Doorslaer,Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya,Sri Lanka,Aparnaa Somanathan,Baktygul Akkazieva,Charu C. Garg,Alejandro N. Herrin,Mohammed N. Huq,Shamsia Ibragimova,Tae-jin Lee,Gabriel M. Leung +10 more
TL;DR: This is the first cross-country comparisons of the impoverishing effect of OOP payments measured against the international poverty standards of $1 and $2 per person per day.
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Children's education in the Phillipines: Does high fertility matter?
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of family size and sibling position on children's current school enrollment status in the Philippines were examined using the 1983 wave of the Bicol Multipurpose Survey.