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Private voluntary health insurance in development : friend or foe? /
Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in the health sector of many low and middle income countries. The book reviews the context under which private insurance could contribute to an improvement in the financial sustainability of the health sector, financial protection ag...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Health, nutrition, and population series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in the health sector of many low and middle income countries. The book reviews the context under which private insurance could contribute to an improvement in the financial sustainability of the health sector, financial protection against the costs of illness, household income smoothing, access to care, and market productivity. This volume is the third in a series of in-depth reviews of the role of health care financing in providing access for low-income populations to needed halthcare, protecting them from the impoverishing ef. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 424 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0821366203 9780821366202 6610725551 9786610725557 1280725559 9781280725555 082136619X 9780821366196 |