Paying Out-of-Pocket and Informally for Health Care in Albania: The Impoverishing Effect on Households

Front Public Health. 2015 Aug 28:3:207. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00207. eCollection 2015.

¹ Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, United Nations University-MERIT (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht University , Maastricht , Netherlands ; Department of Economics, University of Liege , Liege , Belgium.
² Top Institute Evidence Based Education Research (TIER), Maastricht University , Maastricht , Netherlands ; Department of Health Services Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University , Maastricht , Netherlands.
³ Department of Health Services Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University , Maastricht , Netherlands.
⁴ Top Institute Evidence Based Education Research (TIER), Maastricht University , Maastricht , Netherlands ; Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam , Netherlands.

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Keywords: Albania; catastrophic health expenditure; informal patient payments; out-of-pocket expenditure; poverty.