Health Expenditure, Financial Catastrophe and Impoverishment: Lessons from Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru

Chair: Juan Rafael Vargas

Organizer: Felicia Marie Knaul

Time: Tue 3:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
Room: No.2 Hall B

This session analyze household spending on health in Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru and relates their financial protection results with the health system and health financing in each country.

Discussants:

Ursula Giedion, Center for Studies on Economic Development, Andes University, Colombia, ugiedion@gmail.com; María Paola Zúñiga, Central American Population Center, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica, mpaola.zuniga@gmail.com; Martin Valdivia, Group of Analysis for Development, Peru, jvaldivi@grade.org.pe

Commentator: Juan Rafael Vargas

Socioeconomic determinants of catastrophic health expenditures in Colombia - Ursula Giedion
The catastrophic and out pocket expenditures puzzle: Did out-of-pocket expenditures (oops) could be translated into catastrophic expenditures? What does the Costa Rican health care system shows? - Maria Paola Zuniga
The Vulnerability of the Uninsured to the Health Shocks in Peru - Martin Valdivia