Appendix Table 5 Research questions, corresponding analytical methodology and datasets from the Cambodian Socio-Economic Survey used by the authors. Source: authors calculations ("X": addressed using method)
Research question | Strategy/method | Relevant year of dataset | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Socio-economic quantiles and geographic stratification | Means, medians, and differences testing | Stratification of households according to FB level | Concentration indices and differences testing | Zero-inflated ordered logistic regression | [Recentered influence function regression on concentration indices] | Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of concentration index | 2009 | 2014 | 2019 | |
Primary questions | ||||||||||
1. How has household healthcare-related financial burden (FB) changed between 2009–19, considering national, quantile, and geographic perspectives? | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
2. How is FB distributed across Cambodia's population? | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
3. What factors (determinants) are associated with FB? | X | X | X | |||||||
4. Has the inequality in FB shifted over the years? | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
5. [What factors (determinants) are associated with marginal changes in FB inequality?] | X | X | ||||||||
6. Which factors explain (compose) the changes in FB inequality over time? | X | X | X | |||||||
Secondary questions | ||||||||||
7. Which strategies do households use to cope with the excessive financial burden of healthcare (EFB)? | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
8. How do coping strategies differ between households with EFB and those without? | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
9. Does the type of health condition and healthcare seeking influence a household's likelihood of facing EFB? | X | X | X | |||||||
10. Does free healthcare reduce EFB? | X | X | X | X | ||||||
11. Did the 2015 expansion of HEF reduce FB? | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||