Benefit Incidence Analysis (Record no. 140993)
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| control field | The World Bank |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1596/1813-9450-5234 |
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| System control number | (The World Bank)5234 |
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| Personal name | Wagstaff, Adam |
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| Title | Benefit Incidence Analysis |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | Are Government Health Expenditures More Pro-Rich Than We Think ? / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Wagstaff, Adam |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Washington, D.C., |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | The World Bank, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2010 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource (25 p.) |
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| Summary, etc | It is generally accepted that government health expenditures should disproportionately benefit the poor. And yet in most developing countries the opposite is the case. This paper examines the implications of a central assumption of benefit incidence analysis, namely that the unit cost of a government-provided service bears no relation to the out-of-pocket payments paid by the patient. It argues that a more plausible assumption is that larger out-of-pocket payments for a given unit of utilization reflect more (or more costly) services being delivered. The paper compares - theoretically and empirically - the standard constant-cost assumption with two alternatives, namely that the cost of care in a specific episode of utilization is (a) proportional to or (b) linearly related to the amount of money paid out-of-pocket by the patient. An interesting special case of the linear relationship is where subsidies are focused on a basic unit of care and additional costs are met dollar-for-dollar by additional fees. The paper shows that if fees are more pro-rich than utilization, government spending will be least pro-rich under the constant-cost assumption and most pro-rich under the proportionality assumption. The linear assumption results in a concentration index for subsidies that lies between these two extremes. These results are borne out in an analysis of the incidence of government health spending in Vietnam (a country where fees are more pro-rich than utilization); indeed, under the constant-cost assumption, subsidies are pro-poor while they are pro-rich under the proportionality assumption. The paper also considers the biases created by not allowing for insurance reimbursements. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Clinics |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Economic Theory & Research |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Health |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Health expenditures |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Health Monitoring & Evaluation |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Health services |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Health systems |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Health Systems Development & Reform |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Hospitals |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Human development |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Incidence analysis |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Income |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Inpatient care |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Medicines |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Nutrition and Population |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Outpatient care |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Patient |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Patients |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Primary health care |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Public health |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | School health |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | School health care |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Social services |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Urban Development |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Urban Economics |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Workers |
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| Personal name | Wagstaff, Adam |
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| Main entry heading | Print version: |
| Display text | Wagstaff, Adam. |
| Title | Benefit Incidence Analysis. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2010 |
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| Uniform title | Policy research working papers. |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-5234">http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-5234</a> |
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