Mohanty, Sanjay K. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9041-5952
Dwivedi, Laxmi Kant
Article History
Received: 7 December 2020
Accepted: 4 March 2021
First Online: 20 March 2021
Declarations
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: As the analysis is based on secondary data available in the public domain, it needs no prior approval.
: This manuscript is an original work and has been done by the authors, SKM and LKD who all are aware of its content and approve its submission. This manuscript has not been published elsewhere in part or in entirety, and is not under consideration by another journal. All authors gave their consent for publication in International Journal for Equity in Health<i>.</i>
: The authors declare that they do not have any competing interest.Acknowledgements: We thank the editors and anonymous reviewers for their detailed comments and suggestions on earlier drafts, which substantially improved the manuscript. This paper is part of a research project entitled “Trends in out-of-pocket payment and Catastrophic Health Spending”, carried out at IIPS, Mumbai.