Studies of health care expenditure often exclude explanatory variables measuring wealth,
despite the intuitive importance and policy relevance. We use the Household, Income and …

Explaining individual, regional, and provider variation in health care spending is of
enormous value to policymakers but is often hampered by the lack of individual level detail …

We explore whether medical care use is persistent over a long panel using 18 waves of the
British Household Panel Survey. Of particular interest is high medical care use because a …

Background Poor health increases the likelihood of experiencing poverty by reducing a
person's ability to work and imparting costs associated with receiving medical treatment …

Health and Welfare Measurement Page 1 The Australian Economic Review, vol. 34, no. 3, pp.
332–5 © The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social …

We present a revised method for estimating equivalence scales. Such scales are used to
adjust household welfare to account for the size of the household, and are used extensively …

This paper reviews the latest evidence on the demographic and non-demographic
determinants of health spending in the UK and its implications for our long-term health …

Economists originally developed methods to assess financial catastrophe using total or
aggregate out‐of‐pocket health spending. Aggregate out‐of‐pocket health spending is …

Background Monitoring financial protection against catastrophic health expenditures is
important to understand how health financing arrangements in a country protect its …

This paper investigates the affordability of private health expenditure among Irish
households and the services contributing towards financial hardship. We use data from the …