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Determinants of Catastrophic Health Expenditures: The Case of Turkey
(Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, 2023) Sipahi, Banu Beyaz
Equal access to healthcare services and their usage is important because the utilization of healthcare services can create an unforeseeable financial burden on individuals and households. It has been stated that if households have to finance their healthcare services by reducing their basic expenses or if out-of-pocket expenditures exceed or encompass a significant portion of household expenditures during a certain period, catastrophic health spending occurs. Study uses the data of Household Budget Expenditure Survey by Turkstat with 2018 year. The determinants of catastrophic health expenditures were determined with the logit model and the impoverishing effect of these expenditures was evaluated together. According to the results, the proportion of households spending on catastrophic health was calculated as 1.43% and the proportion of households being driven to poverty as a result of catastrophic health expenditures was calculated as 0.26 %. In addition, the presence of an individual aged 65 and over in the household and the lowest income group increase the likelihood of catastrophic health spending. It has been concluded that these expenditures deepen poverty together with the high rate of catastrophic health expenditures in low-income groups in Turkey.