Depending on the structure of demand for health services, the out-of-pocket health expenditure of households may require sacrifice in the households basic needs. In the literature, this type of spending is called catastrophic health expenditure. One of the main characteristics of catastrophic health expenditures is the capacity to create poverty. In this study, catastrophic expenditures capacity to create poverty in Turkey between 2002-2011 periods is calculated by the approaches of World Bank and World Health Organization. Using these two approaches; the head count indices, catastrophic overshoot indices and concentration indices are calculted. The results of both methods indicate that in Turkey the capacity to create new poverty of catastrophic health expenditure is low however the capacity to increase the intensity of poverty is high.
Key words: Catastrophic Health Expenditures, Impoverishment, Overshoot Indices, Concentration Indices. JEL Classification: I14, I32, C83. Article Language: EnglishTurkish
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