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The impact of health insurance in low- and middle-income countries /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Brookings Institution
Otros Autores: Escobar, Maria-Luisa, Griffin, Charles C., 1951-, Shaw, R. Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why and how we're studying health insurance in the developing world? / Maria-Luisa Escobar, Charles C. Griffin, and R. Paul Shaw
  • A review of the evidence / Ursula Giedion and Beatriz Yadira Díaz
  • 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 [and others]
  • Health insurance and access to health services, health services use, and health status in Peru / Ricardo Bitrán, Rodrigo Muñoz, and Lorena Prieto
  • The impact of health insurance on use, spending, and health in Indonesia / Facundo Cuevas and Susan W. Parker
  • The impact of a social experiment--rural mutual health care--on health care use, financial risk protection, and health status in rural China / Winnie Yip and William Hsiao
  • Colombia's big bang health insurance reform / Ursula Giedion [and others]
  • Main findings, research issues, and policy implications / Maria-Luisa Escobar, Charles C. Griffin, and R. Paul Shaw.