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Comprehensive Assessment of the Impact of Mandatory Community-Based Health Insurance in Burkina Faso
Boutin, Delphine; Petifour, Laurene; Allard, Yvonne; … - 2024
Offering health coverage to informal workers and their families is an ongoing and major challenge in most Sub-Saharan countries. As anchoring insurance to employment contracts is not possible and the demand for insurance is too low to deploy voluntarily sustainable schemes, alternative...
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The Prices in the Crises : What We Are Learning from Twenty Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Das, Jishnu; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...
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Taking cover: human capital accumulation in the presence of shocks and health insurance
Font-Gilabert, Paulino - 2020
Using the expansion of a large-scale health insurance program in Mexico and variation in local rainfall levels, I estimate whether the program-induced increase in healthcare coverage protected the educational attainment of primary school children in the event of adverse climatic shocks. Results...
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Looking at History to Reduce Current Healthcare Costs
Byrd, James; Smith, Douglas; Helms, Marilyn M. - 2016
When the history of healthcare and insurance in the US is examined, it is clear the patient has become more and more removed from the payment process. Insurers including Medicare moved to pay providers more quickly and eliminated pre-payment by the insured customer beyond a typical small...
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Prospects for Growth and Issues in Marketing of Health Insurance in India
Pareek, Manoj - 2018
Health insurance market in India has become the fastest growing segment in non–life insurance sector in India. The health insurance business in India saw a 24% growth in FY 17 with a premium of INR 30,765 Cr and a market share of 24%. It has been the fastest growing market segment registering...
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Crowding Out of Solidarity? – Public Health Insurance versus Informal Transfer Networks in Ghana
Klohn, Florian - 2013
This paper delivers empirical evidence on how informal transfers are affected by a formal and country-wide health insurance scheme. Using the fifth wave of the Ghanaian Living Standard Household Survey, we investigate the extent to which the exogenous implementation of the National Health...
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Crowding Out of Solidarity? – Public Health Insurance versus Informal Transfer Networks in Ghana
Klohn, Florian - 2013
This paper delivers empirical evidence on how informal transfers are affected by a formal and country-wide health insurance scheme. Using the fifth wave of the Ghanaian Living Standard Household Survey, we investigate the extent to which the exogenous implementation of the National Health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078097
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Crowding out of solidarity? : public health insurance versus informal transfer networks in Ghana
Klohn, Florian; Strupat, Christoph - 2013
2005 bis 2006 führten die Distriktregierungen in Ghana eine öffentliche Krankenversicherung ein, die allen … Versicherungsmitgliedern eine kostenlose Gesundheitsversorgung ermöglicht. In der vorliegenden Studie wird empirisch untersucht, inwieweit die … Einführung der formellen Krankenversicherung die Teilnahme an informellen Versicherungen beeinflusst. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen …
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Does access to health insurance reduce the risk of miscarriages? : evidence from Mexico’s Seguro popular
Pfutze, Tobias - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 24 (2015), pp. 1-10
This paper analyzes whether Mexico’s de-facto non-contributory health insurance program Seguro Popular had an effect on the risk of miscarriage during pregnancy. Using data on pregnancies over the 2004–08 period from the 2009 round of the National Survey on Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), and...
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Impact of Urban-Rural Health Insurance Integration on Health Care : Evidence from Rural China
Huang, Xian; Wu, Bingxiao - 2020
In recent years, Chinese local governments have experimented with integrating the social health insurance system segmented between rural and urban areas to unify the administration, policy, and funds of various health insurance programs. In this study, we take advantage of the staggered...
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