Innovations in health system finance in developing and transitional economies. Volume 21 /

Low- and middle-income countries face major challenges to their health systems. These include a high burden of communicable disease and an emerging non-communicable disease burden. Coverage of effective services and interventions is inadequate and often constrained by funding availability. At the sa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chernichovsky, Dov, Hanson, Kara
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Advances in health economics and health services research ; v. 21.
Temas:
Medical economics > Developing countries.
Health care reform > Developing countries.
Poor > Medical care > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
Primary health care > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
Health insurance > Developing countries.
Medical care > Developing countries > Finance.
Medical policy.
Delivery of Health Care > economics
Developing Countries
Health Policy
Insurance, Health > economics
Politique sanitaire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Service.
Medical policy
Health care reform
Health insurance
Medical care > Finance
Medical economics
Poor > Medical care > Economic aspects
Developing countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Section I: The changing international context
  • The double burden of disease in developing countries : the Mexican experience / Ctistina Gutiérrez-Delgado and Veronica Guajardo-Barrón
  • Protecting pro-poor health services during financial crises : lessons from experience / Pablo Gottret [and others]
  • Section II: Expanding coverage and its funding
  • The equity impact of the universal coverage policy : lessons from Thailand / Phusit Prakongsai, Supon Limwattananon and Viroj Tangcharoensathien
  • Social health insurance and labor market outcomes : evidence from central and eastern Europe, and central Asia / Adam Wagstaff and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra
  • Trust in the context of community-based health insurance schemes in Cambodia : villagers' trust in health insurers / Sachiko Ozawa and Damian G. Walker
  • Methodological challenges in evaluating health care financing equity in data-poor contexts : lessons from Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania / Josephine Borghi [and others]
  • Section III: Securing care
  • The role of risk equalization in moving from voluntary private health insurance to mandatory coverage : the experience in South Africa / Heather McLeod and Pieter Grobler
  • Purchasing health care in China : experiences, opportunities and challenges / Winnie Yip and Kara Hanson
  • Section IV: Modifying demand
  • The impact of Nepal's national incentive programme to promote safe delivery in the district of Makwanpur / T. Powell-Jackson [and others]
  • Service- and population-based exemptions : are these the way forward for equity and efficiency in health financing in low-income countries? / Sophie Witter
  • Section V: The universal integrated healthcare system
  • From scheme to system : social health insurance funds and the transformation of health financing in Kyrgyzstan and Moldova / Joseph Kutzin, Melitta Jakab and Sergey Shishkin
  • Reforming "developing" health systems : Tanzania, mexico and the United States / Dov Chernichovsky, Gabriel Martinez and Nelly Aguilera.

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