خلاصة:
This study aims to investigate the percentage of households facing catastrophic health expenditure and the impoverishment index before and after the implementation of the Health System Reform Plan (HSRP) in rural and urban areas of Iran. This research is based on statistical inference, life-cycle theory and pseudo-panel approach, which uses household income-expenditure survey data during 2014-2017. Using the STATA-SE13 and Excel softwares, households were categorized in 10 age groups of households’ heads born between 1944 and 1993 within five-year intervals. The indexes were calculated in weighted and non-weighted cases for total households, and households having health expenditure. After the implementation of HSRP, the percentage of households with catastrophic health expenditure remained relatively unchanged and impoverishment index decreased slightly. In 2015, both rural and urban households having health expenditure in non-weighted case were faced to the least catastrophic expenditure and the least impoverishment index. Totally, rural and urban areas with elderly household-heads experienced the highest catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment rate.
ملخص الجهاز:
Quarterly Journal of Economic Research (Sustainable Growth and Development) - 20th Year - Second Issue - Summer 2020 - Pages 77-98 Study of Catastrophic Health Expenditures and the Rate of Poverty Generation 1 Households within the Framework of Life Cycle Theory with a Pseudo-Panel Approach Mandana Atefi 2 3 Hossein Raghfar 4 Mirhossein Mousavi 5 Esmail Safarzadeh Received Date: 2019/04/27 Accepted Date: 2019/07/10 Abstract This article was prepared with the aim of investigating the percentage of households with catastrophic health expenditures and the rate of poverty generation in rural and urban areas of the country, before and after the implementation of the Health Transformation Plan, based on the life cycle theory and a pseudo-panel approach.
In this regard, Iran implemented the Health Transformation Plan in 2014, one of whose goals was to reduce out-of-pocket 3 payments to prevent households from facing catastrophic health expenditures and poverty generation.
This article has been prepared with the aim of investigating the impact of this plan on the percentage of households facing catastrophic health expenditures and the rate of poverty generation using a pseudo-panel 4 approach and based on the life cycle theory.
Percentage of poverty aggravation in rural and urban households between the years 1392 to 1395 by considering household weight {Refer to the attached table file} Source: Research findings The results showed that more households were pushed below the poverty line due to providing health expenditures compared to the household study in the non-weighted mode.
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