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Using Vietnam’s Household Living Standard Survey of 2014 and a multivariate regression analysis, this paper compares inpatient out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure among individuals reporting at least one severe injury and those reporting no severe injuries during the 12 months preceding the survey (n = 2771). Presence of severe injuries is found to increase inpatient OOP expenditure by 60% and the increase in OOP expenditure is more pronounced for contacts at a central hospital (154.7%) than at a district hospital (45.4%). Our findings suggest that the financial protection of health insurance is modest, reducing OOP expenditure by 31.5% for a contact at a central hospital and by 44–50% for a contact at district and provincial/city hospitals. Measures should be taken to strengthen the injury care at the community level while broadening the breadth and depths of insurance coverage.
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Vu, P., Sepehri, A. (2021). Presence of Severe Injuries and Financial Burden of Hospitalization: A Case of Vietnam. In: Orăștean, R., Ogrean, C., Mărginean, S.C. (eds) Organizations and Performance in a Complex World. IECS 2019. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50676-6_32
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