Lu, MingshanJiang, Jing2019-10-072019-10-072019-10-04Jiang, J. (2019). Measuring Catastrophic Health Expenditure: Innovation and Validation (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.http://hdl.handle.net/1880/111146This research attempts to provide an innovative approach to measuring Catastrophic Health Expenditure (CHE) that captures the dynamics of household assets globally. CHE is a major cause that pushes households into poverty or forces households already in poverty into even deeper poverty. The study estimates how dynamically measured CHE affects a household’s assets by exploiting a panel dataset with a plethora of household financial information. The innovative approach is then validated by comparing the accuracies of future CHE incidence prediction, using the CHE indicators in the current period along with other household characteristics, fitted into a machine-learning classification algorithm.engUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.catastrophic health expenditurehealth expenditurehealth insurancepoverty alleviationillness-caused povertymeasurements of CHEasset dynamicsinnovationvalidationmachine learningEconomicsmaster thesis10.11575/PRISM/37204