Jamaica - Access to affordable health care

Increase in poverty gap at $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (USD)

The value for Increase in poverty gap at $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (USD) in Jamaica was 0.24 as of 2004. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2.82 in 1992 and a minimum value of 0.08 in 1995.

Definition: Increase in poverty gap at $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure, expressed in US dollars (2011 PPP). The poverty gap increase due to out-of-pocket health spending is one way to measure how much out-of-pocket health spending pushes people below or further below the poverty line (the difference in the poverty gap due to out-of-pocket health spending being included or excluded from the measure of household welfare). This difference corresponds to the total out-of-pocket health spending for households that are already below the poverty line, to the amount that exceeds the shortfall between the poverty line and total consumption for households that are impoverished by out-of-pocket health spending and to zero for households whose consumption is above the poverty line after accounting for out-of-pocket health spending.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1990 0.94
1991 0.46
1992 2.82
1993 2.25
1994 0.22
1995 0.08
1996 0.21
1997 0.11
2002 0.21
2003 0.21
2004 0.24

Increase in poverty gap at $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (% of poverty line)

The value for Increase in poverty gap at $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (% of poverty line) in Jamaica was 0.13 as of 2004. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.48 in 1992 and a minimum value of 0.04 in 1995.

Definition: Increase in poverty gap at $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure, as a percentage of the $1.90 poverty line. The poverty gap increase due to out-of-pocket health spending is one way to measure how much out-of-pocket health spending pushes people below or further below the poverty line (the difference in the poverty gap due to out-of-pocket health spending being included or excluded from the measure of household welfare). This difference corresponds to the total out-of-pocket health spending for households that are already below the poverty line, to the amount that exceeds the shortfall between the poverty line and total consumption for households that are impoverished by out-of-pocket health spending and to zero for households whose consumption is above the poverty line after accounting for out-of-pocket health spending.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1990 0.49
1991 0.24
1992 1.48
1993 1.18
1994 0.12
1995 0.04
1996 0.11
1997 0.06
2002 0.11
2003 0.11
2004 0.13

Proportion of population pushed below the $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%)

Proportion of population pushed below the $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%) in Jamaica was 0.61 as of 2004. Its highest value over the past 14 years was 1.30 in 1992, while its lowest value was 0.27 in 1996.

Definition: Proportion of population pushed below the $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure. This indicator shows the fraction of a country's households experiencing impoverishing expenditures, defined as expenditures without which the household would have been above the $ 1.90 poverty line, but because of the expenditures is below the poverty line.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1990 0.71
1991 0.73
1992 1.30
1996 0.27
1997 0.31
2001 0.35
2002 0.46
2003 0.39
2004 0.61

Increase in poverty gap at $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (USD)

The value for Increase in poverty gap at $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (USD) in Jamaica was 1.36 as of 2004. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5.26 in 1992 and a minimum value of 0.64 in 1997.

Definition: Increase in poverty gap at $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure, expressed in US dollars (2011 PPP). The poverty gap increase due to out-of-pocket health spending is one way to measure how much out-of-pocket health spending pushes people below or further below the poverty line (the difference in the poverty gap due to out-of-pocket health spending being included or excluded from the measure of household welfare). This difference corresponds to the total out-of-pocket health spending for households that are already below the poverty line, to the amount that exceeds the shortfall between the poverty line and total consumption for households that are impoverished by out-of-pocket health spending and to zero for households whose consumption is above the poverty line after accounting for out-of-pocket health spending.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1990 2.55
1991 2.32
1992 5.26
1993 4.93
1994 1.47
1995 0.99
1996 1.17
1997 0.64
2002 1.38
2003 1.40
2004 1.36

Increase in poverty gap at $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (% of poverty line)

The value for Increase in poverty gap at $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (% of poverty line) in Jamaica was 0.42 as of 2004. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.64 in 1992 and a minimum value of 0.20 in 1997.

Definition: Increase in poverty gap at $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure, as a percentage of the $3.20 poverty line. The poverty gap increase due to out-of-pocket health spending is one way to measure how much out-of-pocket health spending pushes people below or further below the poverty line (the difference in the poverty gap due to out-of-pocket health spending being included or excluded from the measure of household welfare). This difference corresponds to the total out-of-pocket health spending for households that are already below the poverty line, to the amount that exceeds the shortfall between the poverty line and total consumption for households that are impoverished by out-of-pocket health spending and to zero for households whose consumption is above the poverty line after accounting for out-of-pocket health spending.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1990 0.80
1991 0.73
1992 1.64
1993 1.54
1994 0.46
1995 0.31
1996 0.36
1997 0.20
2002 0.43
2003 0.44
2004 0.42

Proportion of population pushed below the $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%)

Proportion of population pushed below the $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%) in Jamaica was 1.41 as of 2004. Its highest value over the past 14 years was 2.39 in 1992, while its lowest value was 0.46 in 2001.

Definition: Proportion of population pushed below the $3.20 ($2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure. This indicator shows the fraction of a country's households experiencing impoverishing expenditures, defined as expenditures without which the household would have been above the $3.20 poverty line, but because of the expenditures is below the poverty line.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1990 1.54
1991 2.14
1992 2.39
1996 1.21
1997 1.11
2001 0.46
2002 1.55
2003 1.32
2004 1.41

Proportion of population spending more than 10% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%)

Proportion of population spending more than 10% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%) in Jamaica was 10.20 as of 2004. Its highest value over the past 14 years was 10.38 in 2002, while its lowest value was 3.54 in 1997.

Definition: Proportion of population spending more than 10% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1990 7.04
1991 10.12
1992 9.70
1996 5.81
1997 3.54
2001 5.39
2002 10.38
2003 10.37
2004 10.20

Proportion of population spending more than 25% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%)

Proportion of population spending more than 25% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%) in Jamaica was 2.88 as of 2004. Its highest value over the past 14 years was 3.13 in 1992, while its lowest value was 0.43 in 1997.

Definition: Proportion of population spending more than 25% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1990 2.14
1991 2.36
1992 3.13
1996 1.15
1997 0.43
2001 0.56
2002 2.68
2003 2.59
2004 2.88

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in Jamaica was 70.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 70.00 in 2019 and 37.00 in 2000.

Definition: Coverage index for essential health services (based on tracer interventions that include reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, infectious diseases, noncommunicable diseases and service capacity and access). It is presented on a scale of 0 to 100.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (https://www.who.int/data/gho).

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Year Value
2000 37.00
2005 61.00
2010 66.00
2015 68.00
2017 69.00
2019 70.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage