UID:
edoccha_9958098039802883
Format:
xxvii, 424 pages :
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illustrations ;
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26 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-72555-9
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9786610725557
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0-8213-6620-3
Series Statement:
Health, nutrition and population series
Content:
Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in the health sector of many low and middle income countries. The book reviews the context under which private insurance could contribute to an improvement in the financial sustainability of the health sector, financial protection against the costs of illness, household income smoothing, access to care, and market productivity. This volume is the third in a series of in-depth reviews of the role of health care financing in providing access for low-income populations to needed halthcare, protecting them from the impoverishing ef
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1. The Evolution of Health Insurance in Developing Countries; FIGURES; TABLES; PART 1 ECONOMIC UNDERPINNINGS; PART 2 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; PART 3 FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE; BOXES; Appendix: Review of the Literature on Voluntary Private Health Insurance; About the Coeditors and Contributors; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-6619-X
Language:
English
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