Household catastrophic health expenditure: a multicountry analysis.

By Ke Xu, David B. Evans, K. Kawabata, Riadh Zeramdini, J. Klavus, Christopher J. L. Murray. The Lancet, 2003

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Catastrophic payments for health care in Asia. (2007, background): “We extend the existing evidence on catastrophic payments derived from nationally representative expenditure data (Pradhan and Prescott, 2002; Wagstaff and Van Doorslaer, 2003; Xu et al., 2003) by adding estimates for China and India, and many other Asian countries.”
Economic Impacts of Child Marriage: A Review of the Literature (2015, positive): “The combination of girls being physically immature and the lack of proper medical care during pregnancy and childbirth puts adolescent mothers at higher risk for complications during gestation and delivery, including prolonged or obstructed labor, fistula and death (Xu et al. 2003).”
For Reducing Poverty Faster: Target Reasons Before People (2007, neutral): “…unambiguously to the deleterious effects of healthcare costs upon households’ welfare (Asfaw & von Braun, 2004; Barrett, Reardon, & Webb, 2001; Deolalikar, 2002; Fabricant, Kamara, & Mills, 1999; Farmer, 1999; Krishna, 2004; Krishna et al., 2006; Strauss & Thomas, 1998; Xu et al., 2003; Yao, 2005).”
Growing Epidemic of Coronary Heart Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2010, background): “High rates of CHD are especially troublesome in Ukraine and other FSRs in transition, where health systems are not sufficiently financed to respond to a high demand for chronic disease treatment, and out-of-pocket health care expenditures incurred by patient households are often catastrophic [28].”