Subject: WHO Barcelona: questions about Georgia Financial Protection analysis
From: "GARCIA, Jorge Alejandro" <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "THOMSON, Sarah" <[email-masked]>, "Cylus,JD" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:23:46 +0000

Good afternoon Mamuka and Ketevan

My name is Jorge Alejandro Garcia, I'm working as a Financial Protection consultant with Sarah Thomson and Jon
Cylus at the WHO Barcelona office for Health Systems Strengthening. I'm contacting you because I'm preparing the updated financial protection figures for Georgia based on the latest analysis you performed last year.

I found some data which seems misleading, and would like to have your help to clarify:

1. In Fig 7 (Share of households reporting no OOPs by consumption quintile), data for 2017 looks odd (it has a value of zero for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and Richest quintile, which doesn't happen in
other years). I took the numbers from appendix table 5 line 42 (attached). Maybe this is a problem of the data extraction process, as this doesn't happen for the updated years (2016 and
2018).Could you provide the Stata log file for the 2017 Georgia financial protection analysis so I could double-check? Specially
Table 5.

2. Also, could you confirm if in the data
reported as absolute number in the appendix tables, are reported as monthly values or annual values (for instance figure 8 and figure 13)? Because we would need annual values for every figure

Thank you very much in advance for your help,

Jorge Alejandro

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Jorge Alejandro García Ramírez

Medical Doctor,
MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing

Consultant at the WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening

Barcelona, Spain

Web: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/Health-systems/health-systems-financing

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgegarciamd