COVER WORD OF WARRANTY CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CONTENT OF TABLE CONTENT OF FIGURE CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background 1.2 Research Objectives 1.3Data source 1.4Study Design CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Definition 2.1.1 Social equity 2.1.2 Equity in health care 2.1.3 Inequality and Inequity 2.1.4 Vertical equity and Horizontal equity 2.1.5 Ability to pay – ATP 2.2 Concentration index and Concentration curve 2.3 Concentration index 2.3 Concentration curve 2.3 Katwani indices and Concentration curves 2.4 Inequity or Progressivity of health care finance 2.5 Decomposition 2.6 Review emperical studies about health equity finance CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY 3.1 Analytical framework 3.2Model 3.3Data 3.4 Variables CHAPTER 4: RESULTS 4.1 Vietnam Health Care System 4.2 Delivery of Health care 4.3 Financing of Health Care 4.4 Results 4.4.1 OLSand Quantile Regression of Household Total expenditure 4.4.2 Average Per household Health Finance and Shares of Total Financing 4.4.3 Distributional Incidence of Sources of Household Health Finance 4.4.4 Decomposition inequality of Household Total expenditure 4.4.5 Decomposition inequality of Health Care 4.4.6 Concentration Curves 4.4.7 Distribution of Health Payments 4.5 Compare with international studies 4.6 Discussion CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND POLICY IMPLICATION 5.1 Conclusion 5.2 Policy implication 5.3 Limitation REFERENCES CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY CHAPTER 4: RESULTS 4.1 Vietnam Health Care System 4.2 Delivery of Health care 4.3 Financing of Health Care 4.4 Results CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND POLICY IMPLICATION