UID:
edoccha_9958080724802883
Format:
1 online resource (pages cm)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8213-8579-8
Series Statement:
World Bank e-Library.
Content:
"Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance: Staying the Course" is the fifth volume in a series of in-depth reviews on the role of health care financing in improving access for low-income populations to needed care, protecting them from the impoverishing effects of illness, and addressing the important issues of social exclusion in government financed programs. Success in improving access and financial protection through community and private voluntary health insurance have led many countries to attempt to make membership compulsory and to offer subsidized insurance through the public sector. The protagonists are divided into several camps; from supporters of health insurance to opponents or skeptics. Today many low- and middle-income countries are no longer listening to this dichotomized debate between vertical and horizontal approaches to health care. Instead, they are experimenting with new and innovative approaches to health care financing. Health insurance is becoming a new paradigm for reaching the Millennium Development Goals. The research for this volume shows that when properly designed and coupled with public subsidies, health insurance can contribute to the well-being of poor and middle-class households, not just the rich. And it can contribute to development goals such as improved access to health care, better financial protection against the cost of illness, and reduced social exclusion. The book is organized into three main parts. Major policy directions in financing health care are discussed in Part 1, with a particular focus on the pre-conditions for scaling up. Part 2 moves from theory to practice with overviews and country level studies on health insurance development. Finally, part 3 highlights the implementation challenges.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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1. Public options and private choices / Alexander S. Preker, Marianne E. Lindner, Dov Chernichovsky, and Onno P. Schellekens -- 2. Health protection : more than financial protection / Xenia B. Scheil-Adlung -- Making health insurance affordable : role of risk equalization / Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven -- 4. Reaching the poor : transfers from rich to poor and from healthy to sick / Sherry Glied and Mark Stabile -- 5. Binding constraints on public funding : prospects for creating fiscal space / Peter S. Heller -- Universal coverage : a global consensus / Guy Carrin, Inke Mathauer, Ke Xu, and David B. Evans -- 7. The French connection in francophone Africa / Yohana Dukhan, Alexander S. Preker and François Diop -- 8. Big bang reforms in anglophone Africa / Caroline Ly, Yohana Dukhan, Frank G. Feeley, Alexander S. Preker, and Chris Atim -- Moving from intent to action in the Middle East and North Africa / Bjorn O. Ekman and Heba A. Elgazzar -- One step, two step tango in Latin America and the Caribbean / Ricardo Bitrán -- 11. Orient express in South, East, and Pacific Asia / William C. Hsiao, Alexis Medina, Caroline Ly, and Yohana Dukhan -- 12. Bismarck's unfinished business in Western Europe / Hans Maarse, Alexander S. Preker, Marianne E. Lindner, and Onno P. Schellekens -- 13. From cradle to grave in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere / Alexander S. Preker and Mark C. Bassett -- 14. Great post-communist experiment in Eastern Europe and Central Asia / Adam Wagstaff and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra -- 15. Political economy of reform / Ashley M. Fox and Michael R. Reich -- 16. Institutions matter / Alexander S. Preker, April Harding, Edit V. Velenyi, Melitta Jacob, Caroline Ly, and Yohana Dukhan -- 17. Accountability and choice / Dov Chernichovsky, Michal Chernichovsky, Jürgen Hohmann, and Bernd Schramm -- 18. Regulatory and supervisory challenges / Hernán L. Fuenzalida-Puelma, Pablo Gottret, Somil Nagpal, and Nicole Tapay -- 19. Implementing change / Hong Wang, Kimberly Switlick-Prose, Christine Ortiz, Catherine Connor, Beatriz Zurita, Chris Atim, and François Diop -- 20. New development paradigm / Onno Schellekens, Jacques van der Gaag, Marianne E. Lindner, and Judith de Groot.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-8250-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-70573-1
Language:
English
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