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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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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.