In India, the out-of-pocket health expenditure by households accounts for around 70 percent of the total expenditure on … health. Large out-of-pocket payments may reduce consumption expenditure on other goods and services and push households into … poverty. Recently, health insurance has been considered as one of the possible instruments in reducing impoverishing effects …

. Since 2003, the local health agency (Bapel) has been quite successful in managing this program. The program that is funded … differences in the type and extent of health services offered by the two of them. The outcome of the findings shows that puskesmas … are the communitys very poor socio-economic conditions, endemic malaria, minimal numbers of health workers in rural areas …

Purbalingga is the first kabupaten in Indonesia to start implementing its health insurance scheme for the poor, as a … replacement for the JPS-BK scheme (Social Safety Net Program Health Sector). Poor families (Gakin) receive a range of health … in the scope of its health services, because it not only includes poor families in its scheme, but also non-poor families …

-recipient sectors are the focus of the study : education, health, and roads infrastructure. The study sample areas are four districts …

The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on health in Pakistan at provincial … emphasising health services as well as the trend in access to and public sector spending on health care facilities in Pakistan …. The study explores the inequalities in resource distribution and service provision against the government health …

The cutback in public investment in social sector including health is an inevitable consequence of the financial crises … deficiencies of the public health services rather added fuel to the fire. Circumstances made it pertinent to mobilise additional … resources from within the health sector itself, as contained in the structural adjustment programme, for financing the health …

This study attempted to evaluate the working of the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) and Ex …-servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) by assessing patient satisfaction as well as the issues and concerns of empanelled private … some out-of- pocket health expenditure while seeking healthcare. Furthermore, beneficiaries are not in favour of the recent …

The present paper attempts to modify definition of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure by characterising it … based on consumption of necessities. In literature, catastrophic expenditure is defined as that level of OOP health …, catastrophic health expenditure is defined as one which reduces the non-health expenditure to a level where household is unable to …

There is a growing emphasis on the role of trade in health services (telehealth, health tourism and retirement … infrastructure and financing, and upgrading the capacities of health professionals. This paper seeks to identify the opportunities …, barriers, and risks for the Philippines in participating in global trade in health services. It examines the countrys …