Dear Jorge Alejandro,

Good morning. We will review your comments and will send our explanation tomorrow morning.

With best regards, Keti

From: GARCIA, Jorge Alejandro [mailto:jogarcia@who.int]
Sent: 28 April, 2020 13:07
To: mamnadar@gmail.com; Ketevan Goginashvili
Cc: THOMSON, Sarah; Cylus,JD
Subject: Re: WHO Barcelona: questions about Georgia Financial Protection analysis

Good morning Mamuka and Ketevan

I am following-up on this email to know if you have received it,

Have a good day,

Jorge Alejandro

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Jorge Alejandro García Ramírez

Medical Doctor, MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing

Consultant at the WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening

Barcelona, Spain

Web: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/Health-systems/health-systems-financing

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgegarciamd

From: GARCIA, Jorge Alejandro
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 3:23 PM
To: mamnadar@gmail.com ; kgoginashvili@moh.gov.ge
Cc: THOMSON, Sarah ; Cylus,JD
Subject: WHO Barcelona: questions about Georgia Financial Protection analysis

Good afternoon Mamuka and Ketevan

My name is Jorge Alejandro Garcia, I'm working as a Financial Protection consultant with Sarah Thomson and Jon Cylus at the WHO Barcelona office for Health Systems Strengthening. I'm contacting you because I'm preparing the updated financial protection figures for Georgia based on the latest analysis you performed last year.

I found some data which seems misleading, and would like to have your help to clarify:

1. In Fig 7 (Share of households reporting no OOPs by consumption quintile), data for 2017 looks odd (it has a value of zero for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and Richest quintile, which doesn't happen in other years). I took the numbers from appendix table 5 line 42 (attached). Maybe this is a problem of the data extraction process, as this doesn't happen for the updated years (2016 and 2018).Could you provide the Stata log file for the 2017 Georgia financial protection analysis so I could double-check? Specially Table 5.

2. Also, could you confirm if in the data reported as absolute number in the appendix tables, are reported as monthly values or annual values (for instance figure 8 and figure 13)? Because we would need annual values for every figure

Thank you very much in advance for your help,