This overview of health financing tools, policies and trends with a particular focus on challenges facing developing countries provides the basis for effective policy-making. Analyzing the current global environment, the book discusses health financing goals in the context of both the underlying health, demographic, social, economic, political and demographic analytics as well as the institutional realities faced by developing countries, and assesses policy options in the context of global evidence, the international aid architecture, cross-sectoral interactions, and countries' macroeconomic...
This overview of health financing tools, policies and trends with a particular focus on challenges facing developing countries provides the basis for ...
For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy. Developing countries and the international community are scaling up health systems to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and are improving financial protection by securing long-term support for these gains. Yet money alone cannot buy health gains or prevent impoverishment due to catastrophic medical bills; well structured, results-based financing reforms are needed. Unfortunately, global evidence of -successful- health financing...
For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy...
Although mandatory health insurance programs are being proposed or expanded in many developing countries, relatively little attention has been given to how these programs are governed. The available literature focuses almost exclusively on operational features that are important but will necessarily change over time--such as eligibility, benefit packages, and premiums. 'Governing Mandatory Health Insurance' instead looks at the institutional and political forces that affect the behavior of such programs within their social and historical contexts and how five dimensions of...
Although mandatory health insurance programs are being proposed or expanded in many developing countries, relatively little attention has been given t...
Health insurance can offer protection against catastrophic medical expenses and improve access to health care. There are, however, imperfections in the insurance market that require intervention such as asymmetry of information between the policy holder and the insurance company, moral hazard that can occur on the side of the insured or the provider of health services, risk selection that may lead to cream skim a particular market, and others. To encourage the effective development of Voluntary Private Health Insurance, it will be necessary for policymakers to establish and enforce regulatory...
Health insurance can offer protection against catastrophic medical expenses and improve access to health care. There are, however, imperfections in th...
