Dear Keti and Mamuka

 

Thanks to you both for updating the analysis to include the 2017 and 2018 data.

 

In follow up to Jorge’s email, it would be great if we could disaggregate households with catastrophic health spending using socioeconomic factors in addition to household consumption quintiles.

 

In other countries, we have used:

• urban-rural
• household structure (eg single person household, household with no children, household with children, household with x children etc)
• age / gender of the head of the household
• household economic activity or sources of income (eg employed, unemployed, pensioner, social beneficiary etc)
• health insurance status (eg with voluntary health insurance or not, type of entitlement to publicly financed health care etc)

 

You will know what the household budget survey in Georgia permits us to look at.

 

I also copy Triin, who is currently reviewing the report, in case she has ideas of the types of categories it might be good to capture in Georgia.

 

When you do the analysis, it is good to produce two types of analysis: a) the breakdown of all households with catastrophic health spending by category and b) the incidence of catastrophic health spending within different categories.

 

With thanks and best wishes

 

Sarah