Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) (a.k.a. micro health insurance) is a contributory health insurance among rural poor in developing countries. As CBHI schemes typically function with no subsidy income, the schemes' expenditures cannot exceed their premium income. A good estimate of...

This paper reports on two voluntary, contributory, contextualized, community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes, launched in Dhading and Banke (Nepal) in 2011. The implementation followed a four stage process: initiating (baseline survey), involving (awareness generation and engaging...

Introduction In Rajasthan (India) people mainly pay for their healthcare out-of-pocket as they are not insured. The rural poor might pay for health insurance if benefits match their preferences. To find out those preferences in a structured way, we carried out a simulation exercise with a tool...