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Making Health Insurance Pro-poor: Lessons from 20 Developing …

(6 days ago) WEBABSTRACT. The last 20 years have seen a substantial growth in research on the extent to which health sector reforms are pro-poor or pro-rich. What has been missing is knowledge synthesis work to derive operational lessons from the empirical research. This article fills …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1917092

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Health Care Systems in Low- and Middle-Income …

(1 days ago) WEBFigure 1 shows the sources of health care financing according to country income. On average, almost 50% of health care financing in low-income countries comes from out-of-pocket payments, …

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1110897

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Health insurance coverage in low-income and middle-income …

(3 days ago) WEBFor countries relying on voluntary community health funds as their primary health insurance scheme, beneficiaries’ perception that the poor quality of care offered …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9092126/

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Health Insurance Coverage In Low- And Middle-Income Countries …

(Just Now) WEBHealth insurance coverage exceeded 50 percent in only seven countries and 70 percent in only three countries. Substantially more people had public health …

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00951

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Poverty and Health - World Bank Group

(2 days ago) WEBPoverty and Health. Context. Poverty is a major cause of ill health and a barrier to accessing health care when needed. This relationship is financial: the poor cannot afford to purchase those things that are needed for …

https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/health/brief/poverty-health

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Universal health care in middle-income countries: Lessons from …

(3 days ago) WEBIn all countries, the financing of health insurance or direct services or the poor is financed by a subsidy from government (from general taxes). What varies across …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8645236/

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Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Low- and Middle-Income …

(Just Now) WEBA significantly large population in the middle wealth quintiles (Q2-Q3) remains uncovered or under-covered as they are neither poor enough to be covered by …

https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10084872/

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The Impact of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income …

(2 days ago) WEB[DNLM: 1. Insurance, Health. 2. Developing Countries. 3. Health Policy—economics. W 225.1] Chapter 3 Low-Cost Health Insurance Schemes to Protect the Poor in Namibia 33

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/theimpactofhealthinsurance_fulltext.pdf

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Global health in low-income and middle-income countries: a …

(3 days ago) WEBGlobal health was founded on an egalitarian promise: improve health care for everyone, everywhere. As an area of research, education, and practice that leverages …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(21)00143-1/fulltext

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WHO releases the largest global collection of health inequality data

(9 days ago) WEBThe data from the repository show that, in just a decade, the rich-poor gap in health service coverage among women, newborns and children in low- and middle …

https://www.who.int/news/item/20-04-2023-who-releases-the-largest-global-collection-of-health-inequality-data

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Making Health Insurance Pro-poor: Lessons from 20 Developing …

(Just Now) WEBBased on publications covering 20 developing countries, we find that health insurance is no panacea for improving equity in the health sector. More importantly, we …

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353949423_Making_Health_Insurance_Pro-poor_Lessons_from_20_Developing_Countries

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Equity in health insurance schemes enrollment in low and middle …

(5 days ago) WEBEnsuring access to essential quality health services and reducing financial hardship for all individuals regardless of their ability to pay are the main goals of …

https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-021-01608-x

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Health Insurance in Low-Income Countries Oxfam International

(1 days ago) WEBDownloads. bp112_health_insurance_0805_4.pdf. Some donors and governments propose that health insurance mechanisms can close health financing gaps and benefit poor …

https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/health-insurance-low-income-countries

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Private Health Insurance for the Poor in Developing Countries?

(6 days ago) WEBThe financing of health care is a major challenge for developing countries, especially since deficiencies in national health systems specifically harm the poor. Innovative financing …

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/private-health-insurance-for-the-poor-in-developing-countries_246261152655

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Making Health Insurance Pro-poor: Lessons from 20 Developing …

(1 days ago) WEBAbstract. The last 20 years have seen a substantial growth in research on the extent to which health sector reforms are pro-poor or pro-rich. What has been missing is …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34402399/

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Health inequities and their causes - World Health Organization …

(9 days ago) WEBThe lower an individual’s socio-economic position, the higher their risk of poor health. Maternal mortality is a health indicator that shows the wide gaps between …

https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/health-inequities-and-their-causes

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U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022 - Commonwealth …

(6 days ago) WEBIntroduction. In the previous edition of U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, we reported that people in the United States experience the worst health …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2023/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2022

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Ineffective insurance in lower and middle income countries is an

(3 days ago) WEBHealth insurance serves two primary functions for individuals. that is in the poorest households in the lowest income countries. Third, the poor and undereducated …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6076567/

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In sickness and in wealth: why insurance programs are bad for …

(Just Now) WEBRead the report: Universal Health Coverage: Why health insurance schemes are leaving the poor behind Social health insurance (SHI) is the main model being touted, whereby …

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/sickness-and-wealth-why-insurance-programs-are-bad-poor-nations-health

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Health insurance for the rural poor - OECD

(6 days ago) WEBRecently, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa but also in a variety of other countries, non-profit, mutual, community-based health insurance schemes have emerged. These schemes …

https://www.oecd.org/dev/2510517.pdf

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Making Health Insurance Pro-poor: Lessons from 20 …

(5 days ago) WEBWe identified 64 evaluations of health insurance schemes in 20 developing countries. The substantially expanded published literature cov-ered in this paper goes beyond …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23288604.2021.1917092

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Health insurance and the poor in low income countries - PubMed

(1 days ago) WEBIn most poor and middle income counties--even the most aid dependant--by far the biggest source of finance in the health sector is out of pocket expenditure and the poor in many …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12743884/

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