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Measuring financial protection for older persons in Viet Nam
Background
Globally, studies on the impact of out-of-pocket spending on health care tend to be based on country-level data detailing household health expenditures, which gloss over variations in health care utilization and expenditures by population subgroups such as older people. Older people generally have higher rates of chronic conditions and multi-morbidities which may require greater use of health care and putting them at risk of high out-of-pocket payments.