Prasanta Kishore Tripathy

Determinants of Out-of-Pocket and Catastrophic Health Expenditure: A Cross-sectional Study

Rajesh Kumar Sinha, Keya Chatterjee, Nirmala Nair & Prasanta Kishore Tripathy · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2015

Background: In India, Out of Pocket Health Expenditures (OOPHE) is as high as 70-80% of total health expenditures, borne by the families of ailing persons. In most cases such high OOPHE is catastrophic in nature, in the backdrop of high poverty level in the country. High OOPHE an...