TY - JOUR
TI - Out-of-pocket expenditures versus equity in health care financing
AU - Hermanowski, Tomasz
AU - Szafraniec-Buryło, Sylwia I.
AU - Cegłowska, Urszula
TI - Out-of-pocket expenditures versus equity in health care financing
AB - 
	Out-of-pocket expenditures versus equity in health care financing

	Health care systems in OECD countries are financed by a mix of taxes, social or private insurance contributions and out-of-pocket payments. The various funding sources may have different impact on equity and redistributive effect in health care financing. The co-payments for certain medical services exist in all OECD countries, the most common are co-payments for the reimbursement drugs. This paper presents preliminary results of literature review of studies on equity in financing of health care, conducted in the framework of InterQuality Project. Recent studies on equity in the financing of reimbursement drugs in Poland and Hungary were identified, as well as earlier study, measuring horizontal inequity in utilization of prescription drugs in Denmark. The results show that inequity in financing and utilization of reimbursement drugs remained, and even increased in Hungary and Poland after implementation of health care reforms, which led to higher out-of-pocket expenditures on reimbursed drugs.
VL - 2013
IS - Volume 11, Issue 1
PY - 2013
SN - 1731-7398
C1 - 2084-2627
SP - 100
EP - 106
DO - 10.4467/20842627OZ.14.010.1620
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zdrowie-publiczne-i-zarzadzanie/article/wplyw-wydatkow-typu-out-of-pocket-na-sprawiedliwosc-w-finansowaniu-ochrony-zdrowia
KW - equity
KW - out-of-pocket expenditure
KW - health care expenditure
KW - co-payment