Private Voluntary Health Insurance In Development PDF Download

Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Private Voluntary Health Insurance In Development PDF full book. Access full book title Private Voluntary Health Insurance In Development.

Private Voluntary Health Insurance in Development

Private Voluntary Health Insurance in Development
Author: Alexander S. Preker
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821366203

Download Private Voluntary Health Insurance in Development Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in the health sector of many low and middle income countries. The book reviews the context under which private insurance could contribute to an improvement in the financial sustainability of the health sector, financial protection against the costs of illness, household income smoothing, access to care, and market productivity. This volume is the third in aseries of in-depth reviews of the role of health care financing in providing access for low-income populations to needed healthcare, protecting them from the impoverishing effects of illness, and addressing the important issues of social exclusion in government financed programs.


Private Voluntary Health Insurance

Private Voluntary Health Insurance
Author: Greg Brunner
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2012-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 082138757X

Download Private Voluntary Health Insurance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

This book aims to help countries design and implement a legal framework for a viable private health insurance market, with rationale for insurance regulation, institutions involved, and standards and protections used in regulating private health insurance.


Voluntary Health Insurance in Europe: Country Experience

Voluntary Health Insurance in Europe: Country Experience
Author: Sagan A.
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2016-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9289050373

Download Voluntary Health Insurance in Europe: Country Experience Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

No two markets for voluntary health insurance (VHI) are identical. All differ in some way because they are heavily shaped by the nature and performance of publicly financed health systems and by the contexts in which they have evolved. This volume contains short structured profiles of markets for VHI in 34 countries in Europe. These are drawn from European Union member states plus Armenia Iceland Georgia Norway the Russian Federation Switzerland and Ukraine. The book is aimed at policy-makers and researchers interested in knowing more about how VHI works in practice in a wide range of contexts. Each profile written by one or more local experts identifies gaps in publicly-financed health coverage describes the role VHI plays outlines the way in which the market for VHI operates summarises public policy towards VHI including major developments over time and highlights national debates and challenges. The book is part of a study on VHI in Europe prepared jointly by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the WHO Regional Office for Europe. A companion volume provides an analytical overview of VHI markets across the 34 countries.


Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance

Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance
Author: Alexander S. Preker
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821385798

Download Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

This book presents an in-depth review on the role of health care financing in improving access for low-income populations to needed care, protecting them from the impoverishing effects of illness, and addressing the important issues of social exclusion in government financed programs.


Private Voluntary Health Insurance

Private Voluntary Health Insurance
Author: Greg Brunner
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2012-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821387561

Download Private Voluntary Health Insurance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Despite substantial progress towards peace, economic growth, and better governance since 2003, Liberia remains one of the poorest countries in the world. The objective of this study is twofold. First it is to provide a basic diagnostic of both consumption-based poverty and human development (especially education and health) in the country using the 2007 CWIQ (Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire) survey. Second, it is to assess the likely impact on the poor of the recent economic crisis, and especially the increase in rice prices, and to document the targeting performance of various measures.


Care Without Coverage

Care Without Coverage
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2002-06-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309083435

Download Care Without Coverage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million-one in seven-working-age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.


Impact of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-income Countries

Impact of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-income Countries
Author: Maria-Luisa Escobar
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2010
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0815705468

Download Impact of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-income Countries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Over the past twenty years, many low- and middle-income countries have experimented with health insurance options. While their plans have varied widely in scale and ambition, their goals are the same: to make health services more affordable through the use of public subsidies while also moving care providers partially or fully into competitive markets. Until now, however, we have known little about the actual effects of these dramatic policy changes. Understanding the impact of health insurance-based care is key to the public policy debate of whether to extend insurance to low-income populationsand if so, how to do itor to serve them through other means.


Global Marketplace for Private Health Insurance

Global Marketplace for Private Health Insurance
Author: Peter Zweifel
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Download Global Marketplace for Private Health Insurance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Financial protection against the cost of illness and inclusion of vulnerable groups - will require better mobilization and use of private means. Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in mobilizing additional resources to the health sector and protecting against the catastrophic cost of illness in some countries. This review explores the context under which private voluntary health insurance could contribute to an improvement in the sustainability of the health sector and financial protection in other countries.


Social Health Insurance for Developing Nations

Social Health Insurance for Developing Nations
Author: R. Paul Shaw
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821369504

Download Social Health Insurance for Developing Nations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Specialist groups have often advised health ministers and other decision makers in developing countries on the use of social health insurance (SHI) as a way of mobilizing revenue for health, reforming health sector performance, and providing universal coverage. This book reviews the specific design and implementation challenges facing SHI in low- and middle-income countries and presents case studies on Ghana, Kenya, Philippines, Colombia, and Thailand.