Impact of health insurance in low- and middle-income countries
By: edited by Maria-Luisa Escobar, Charles C. Griffin, and R. Paul Shaw
Contributors: Brookings Institution
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780815705468
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why and how we're studying health insurance in the developing world; title: A review of the evidence / Ursula Giedion and Yadira Diaz; title: Low-cost health insurance schemes to protect the poor in Namibia / Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Wendy Janssens, and Jacques van der Gaag; title: Ghana's national health insurance scheme / Slavea Chankova, Chris Atim, and Laurel Hatt; title: Impact of health insurance on access, use, and health status in Costa Rica / James Cercone; title: Impact of health insurance on access to health services, health services use, and health status in Peru / Ricardo Bitran; title: The impact of health insurance on use, spending, and health in Indonesia / Facundo Cuevas and Susan W. Parker; title: The impact of rural mutual health care on health care use, financial risk protection, and health status in rural China / Winnie Yip and William Hsiao; title: Colombia-taking 16 years to do what took Europe 100 / Ursula Giedion and Yadira Diaz; title: Main findings, research issues, and policy implications.