Health Financing & Insurance

Terms for how health systems raise and pool funds, insure populations and pay providers.

  • Topic: Health Financing & Insurance
  • 39 terms
  • Editor reviewed

1 term

Impoverishing Health ExpenditureImpoverishing Out-of-Pocket Spending, Poverty-Inducing Health Cost

Out-of-pocket healthcare spending that pushes household income or consumption below an established poverty line, or further below it.