A distributional analysis of healthcare financing in a developing country : a Nigerian case study applying a decomposable Gini index

The policy motivation for this research is primarily to investigate how in the direct absence of significant third-party financing mechanisms and government subsidies, direct purchase of healthcare affects the relative abilities of households to meet their other financial obligations after paying for the cost of health services. In other words, this study aims to analyze the redistributive effect of the direct healthcare financing in Nigeria.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Health Economics Unit

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• Ichoku, Hyacinth Ementa

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Thiede, Michael
• Leibbrandt, Murray

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9442

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/9442