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Financing micro health insurance : theory, methods and evidence

By: Dror, David Mark
Material type: BookSeries: Publisher: New Jersey : World Scientific, c2019.Description: xxiii, 527 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9789813238473Subject(s): Insurance, Health -- economics | Insurance, Health -- organization & administration | Poverty | Rural Population | Developing CountriesDDC classification: 368.382 DR FI Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
Healthcare for all at affordable prices is still a major but universally elusive goal. Everyone spends money on healthcare, and it is the most impoverishing consumption item. Thus, most governments (and the United Nations) promote Universal Health Coverage — each country's unique blend of tools for healthcare financing, including taxes, subsidies and market controls. Most people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have no health insurance of any kind. And most LMIC governments lack the political will, information, or resources to require their citizens to buy health insurance themselves or to subsidize insurance for all who cannot afford the price. This book deals with financing voluntary and contributory health insurance for resource-poor and rural groups in LMICs.
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai
Main Collection 		368.382 DR FI (Browse shelf) Available Mar2020 T0062406
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Healthcare for all at affordable prices is still a major but universally elusive goal. Everyone spends money on healthcare, and it is the most impoverishing consumption item. Thus, most governments (and the United Nations) promote Universal Health Coverage — each country's unique blend of tools for healthcare financing, including taxes, subsidies and market controls.

Most people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have no health insurance of any kind. And most LMIC governments lack the political will, information, or resources to require their citizens to buy health insurance themselves or to subsidize insurance for all who cannot afford the price. This book deals with financing voluntary and contributory health insurance for resource-poor and rural groups in LMICs.

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