Incidence and correlates of 'catastrophic' maternal health care expenditure in India.
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...Using data on the cost of delivery from Bonu et al (2009), we calculate a total cost of $415 for each additional facility birth....
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...21 Bonu and colleagues (2009) report estimates of household expenditure on delivery care from India’s National Sample Survey in 2004....
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...All the estimates and the standard errors were adjusted for the multistage sampling design and clustering at the primary sampling unit, and were weighted at national level to give results that are unbiased and representative of the population (White 1980; White 1982)....
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...As perinatal and neonatal mortality gain more significance to reduce child mortality, increasing the use of maternal health care services becomes all the more important not only to reduce maternal mortality but also to reduce child mortality (Claeson et al. 2000; Jones et al. 2003)....
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...…opportunity cost of other consumption in the short or long term and may lead to under-estimation of overall levels of poverty measured on the basis of total household consumption expenditure (Berki 1986; Wyszewianski 1996; Murray et al. 2000; Wagstaff and van Doorslaer 2003; Xu et al. 2003)....
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...The selection of independent variables was guided by existing literature as well as social, cultural, political and administrative aspects specific to India (Berki 1986; Kawabata et al. 2002; Xu et al. 2003; Russell 2004; Bonu et al. 2005; Su et al. 2006)....
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...Wagstaff and van Doorslaer (2003) and Xu et al. (2003) suggested subtracting actual observed food expenditure instead of aggregate poverty-line expenditure to overcome negative ‘capacity to pay’ problems....
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...…‘catastrophic’ maternal expenditure using two different measurement methods borrowed and adapted from the literature on catastrophic health expenditures (Berki 1986; Wyszewianski 1996; Murray et al. 2000; Kawabata et al. 2002; Wagstaff and van Doorslaer 2003; Xu et al. 2003; Bonu et al. 2007)....
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...The catastrophic health care expenditures have usually been defined by a rather arbitrary fraction of total household expenditure (10%) or of total expenditure net of subsistence expenditure (40%) during the same reference period (Berki 1986; Wyszewianski 1996; Murray et al. 2000; Kawabata et al. 2002; Wagstaff and van Doorslaer 2003; Xu et al. 2003; Bonu et al. 2007)....
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...The explanations for the observed elasticity in this study are most likely to be: lack of heath insurance; constraints in access to public health facilities (Roy and Howard 2006); the inability to control prices; and the changing preference for private health care over public health care....
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