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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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Collectivité auteur: Brookings Institution
Autres auteurs: Shaw, R. Paul, Griffin, Charles C., 1951-, Escobar, Maria-Luisa
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.