Chapter 40: SUMMARY MEASURES OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF HOUSEHOLD FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO HEALTH.

Chapter 40 of the book "Health Systems Performance Assessment" is presented. The chapter develops a justification for the choice of a summary measure for the household financial contribution (HFC) distribution. It discusses various desirable properties that the measure should possess. It presents an overview of the survey data used in the analysis. It also presents some common measures of income inequality and proposes a new measure, called the fairness in financial contribution index (FFC).