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Impact of health insurance in low- and middle-income countries / edited by Maria-Luisa Escobar, Charles C. Griffin, and R. Paul Shaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health insurance--Developing countries.
- Health insurance.
- Medical fees--Developing countries.
- Medical fees.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Over the past twenty years, many low- and middle-income countries have experimented with health insurance options. While their plans have varied widely in scale and ambition, their goals are the same: to make health services more affordable through the use of public subsidies while also moving care providers partially or fully into competitive markets. Until now, however, we have known little about the actual effects of these dramatic policy changes. Understanding the impact of health insurance-based care is key to the public policy debate of whether to extend insurance to low-income populatio
- Contents:
- Why and how we're studying health insurance in the developing world
- A review of the evidence / Ursula Giedion and Yadira Diaz
- Low-cost health insurance schemes to protect the poor in Namibia / Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Wendy Janssens, and Jacques van der Gaag
- Ghana's national health insurance scheme / Slavea Chankova, Chris Atim, and Laurel Hatt
- Impact of health insurance on access, use, and health status in Costa Rica / James Cercone
- Impact of health insurance on access to health services, health services use, and health status in Peru / Ricardo Bitran
- The impact of health insurance on use, spending, and health in Indonesia / Facundo Cuevas and Susan W. Parker
- The impact of rural mutual health care on health care use, financial risk protection, and health status in rural China / Winnie Yip and William Hsiao
- Colombia-taking 16 years to do what took Europe 100 / Ursula Giedion and Yadira Diaz
- Main findings, research issues, and policy implications.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612916236
- 9781282916234
- 1282916238
- 9780815705611
- 0815705611
- OCLC:
- 695933566
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