| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 338 pages) : illustrations |
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Advances in health economics and health services research, 0731-2199 ; v. 21 |
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Advances in health economics and health services research ; v. 21.
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| Contents |
Section I: The changing international context -- The double burden of disease in developing countries : the Mexican experience / Ctistina Gutiérrez-Delgado and Veronica Guajardo-Barrón -- Protecting pro-poor health services during financial crises : lessons from experience / Pablo Gottret [and others] -- Section II: Expanding coverage and its funding -- The equity impact of the universal coverage policy : lessons from Thailand / Phusit Prakongsai, Supon Limwattananon and Viroj Tangcharoensathien -- Social health insurance and labor market outcomes : evidence from central and eastern Europe, and central Asia / Adam Wagstaff and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra -- Trust in the context of community-based health insurance schemes in Cambodia : villagers' trust in health insurers / Sachiko Ozawa and Damian G. Walker -- Methodological challenges in evaluating health care financing equity in data-poor contexts : lessons from Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania / Josephine Borghi [and others] -- Section III: Securing care -- The role of risk equalization in moving from voluntary private health insurance to mandatory coverage : the experience in South Africa / Heather McLeod and Pieter Grobler -- Purchasing health care in China : experiences, opportunities and challenges / Winnie Yip and Kara Hanson -- Section IV: Modifying demand -- The impact of Nepal's national incentive programme to promote safe delivery in the district of Makwanpur / T. Powell-Jackson [and others] -- Service- and population-based exemptions : are these the way forward for equity and efficiency in health financing in low-income countries? / Sophie Witter -- Section V: The universal integrated healthcare system -- From scheme to system : social health insurance funds and the transformation of health financing in Kyrgyzstan and Moldova / Joseph Kutzin, Melitta Jakab and Sergey Shishkin -- Reforming "developing" health systems : Tanzania, mexico and the United States / Dov Chernichovsky, Gabriel Martinez and Nelly Aguilera |
| Summary |
Low- and middle-income countries face major challenges to their health systems. These include a high burden of communicable disease and an emerging non-communicable disease burden. Coverage of effective services and interventions is inadequate and often constrained by funding availability. At the same time, the international financing environment is changing rapidly, with new funding streams becoming available in part as a response to the challenges of meeting the Millennium Development Goals. These countries have taken a diversity of approaches to health care financing policies and programs to face the old and emerging challenges. This is increasingly accompanied by conceptual and applied research which is contributing to our understanding of how different financing mechanisms can contribute to the overall objectives of a health care system. The goal of this volume is to assemble the best of this research and synthesize 'best practices' for the benefit of researchers, policy makers and high level administrators, dealing with all elements of health care financing and focusing on both middle- and low-income settings, to represent the experiences of all regions of the developing world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Medical economics -- Developing countries
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Health care reform -- Developing countries
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Poor -- Medical care -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
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Primary health care -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
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Health insurance -- Developing countries
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Medical care -- Developing countries -- Finance
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Medical policy.
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Delivery of Health Care -- economics
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Developing Countries
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Health Policy
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Insurance, Health -- economics
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Service.
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Medical policy
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Health care reform
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Health insurance
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Medical care -- Finance
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Medical economics
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Poor -- Medical care -- Economic aspects
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chernichovsky, Dov
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Hanson, Kara
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| ISBN |
9781848556652 |
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1848556659 |
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