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The purpose of the project is to support the
research in the field of Public Health Policy. The project is intended
to measure fairness of health financing among IDP and non-IDP
populations residing in Samegrelo Region of Western Georgia. The
fairness of health financing is a subset of the three main goals of
health systems that are good health, responsiveness, and fair finance.
One of the challenges common to all social systems is to achieve
fairness in the distribution of the financing burden, and protection
from the risk of financial loss. Fairness in financing and protection
against financial risk is based on the notion that every household
should pay a fair share for their health. The fairness of health
financing will be captured by examining the extent to which the
Georgian health financing system helps households, both IDPs and non-IDPs
to avoid making catastrophic payments for their health, the extent to
which individuals contribute the fair amount for their health services
and the extent to which the rich bear some of the health costs of the
poor. |