Catastrophic health expenditures arising from out-of-pocket payments: Evidence from South African income and expenditure surveys

Steven F. Koch; Naomi Setshegetso

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0237217

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Catastrophic health expenditures arising from out-of-pocket payments: Evidence from South African income and expenditure surveys

Steven F. Koch ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Steven F. Koch, Naomi Setshegetso

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: steve.koch@up.ac.za

Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng Province, Republic of South Africa
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Naomi Setshegetso

Contributed equally to this work with: Steven F. Koch, Naomi Setshegetso

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng Province, Republic of South Africa, Department of Economics, University of Botswana, Gaborone, South-East District, Republic of Botswana

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1314-3716

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Catastrophic health expenditures arising from out-of-pocket payments: Evidence from South African income and expenditure surveys

Steven F. Koch,
Naomi Setshegetso

Published: August 11, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237217

About the Authors

Steven F. Koch

Contributed equally to this work with: Steven F. Koch, Naomi Setshegetso

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: steve.koch@up.ac.za

Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng Province, Republic of South Africa

Naomi Setshegetso

Contributed equally to this work with: Steven F. Koch, Naomi Setshegetso

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng Province, Republic of South Africa, Department of Economics, University of Botswana, Gaborone, South-East District, Republic of Botswana

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1314-3716

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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