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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The evolution of health insurance in developing countries / Alexander S. Preker
- Insights on demand for private voluntary health insurance in less developed countries / Mark V. Pauly
- Supply of private voluntary health insurance in low-income countries / Peter Zweifel, Boris B. Krey, and Maurizio Tagli
- Market outcomes, regulation, and policy recommendations / Peter Zweifel and Mark V. Pauly
- Provision of a public benefit package alongside private voluntary health insurance / Peter C. Smith
- Economics of private voluntary health insurance revisited / Philip Musgrove
- Scope, limitations, and policy responses / Denis Dreschler and Johannes P. Jütting
- Lessons for developing countries from the OECD / Francesca Colombo
- Trends and regulatory challenges in harnessing private voluntray health insurance / Neelam Sekhri and William D. Savedoff
- Financial and management best practice in private voluntary health insurance / Roger Bowie and Gayle Adams
- Opportunites and constraints in management practices in sub-Saharan Africa / Ladi Awosika
- Facilitating and safeguarding regulation in advanced market economies / Scott E. Harrington
- Financial and other regulatory challenges in low-income countries / Hernán L. Fuenzalida-Puelma, Vijay Kalavakonda, and Mónica Cáceres
- Appendix : Review of the literature on voluntary private health insurance / Mark C. Bassett and Vincent M. Kane
- Impact evaluation studies. Chile : Enrollment, financial protection, and access to care under private voluntary health insurance / Ricardo A. Bitrán and Rodrigo Muñoz ; Egypt : Voluntary health insurance / Heba Nassar and Sameh El-Saharty ; South Africa : Role of private health insurance in the health system / Michael Thiede and Vimbayi Mutyambizi ; Thailand : Role of private insurance in health care access / Siripen Supakankunti ; Turkey : The impact of private health insurance on access to care / Anna Cederberg Heard and Ajay Mahal ; United States : Private health insurance and the financial impact of out-of-pocket health expenditures / M. Kate Bundorf and Mark V. Pauly
- Feasibility studies. Brazil : Private voluntary health insurance in development / Bernard F. Couttolenc and Alexandre C. Nicolella ; China : Private health insurance and its potential / Teh-wei Hu and Xiao-hua Ying ; India : Exploring the feasibility of financing private voluntary health insurance / Peter Berman, Rajeev Ahuga, and Vijay Kalavakonda ; Korea : Expansion of voluntary health insurance coverage targeting specific diseases / Kee Taig Jung
- Nigeria : Feasibility of voluntary health insurance / Obinna Onwujekwe and Edit V. Velényi ; Slovenia : The development of voluntary health insurance and its role / Maks Tajnikar and Petra Došenovič Bonča.