Table 3 Progressivity Indexes for Out-of-pocket payments for health care, 2014
From: Redistributive effects of health care out-of-pocket payments in Cameroon
Measure | Formula | Value |
|---|---|---|
Gini for prepayment income | G X | 0.45744 |
Gini for post-payment income | G X-T | 0.45600 |
Redistributive effect | RE = Gx –G X-T | 0.00144 |
Mean out-of-pocket payment (in FCFA) | T | 28,620 |
Mean pre-payment income (in FCFA) | X | 392,440 |
Mean fraction of prepayment income spent on health care | g = T/X | 7.3% |
Concentration index post-payment income | C X-T | 0.45530 |
Concentration index payments (assuming within-group equality) | C T | 0.48715 |
Kakwani index (assuming within-group equality) | \({\pi}_T^K={C}_T-{G}_X\) | 0.02971 |