Despite limited evidence of successful development and implementation of contributory
health insurance and low and middle income countries, many countries are in the process …

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 …

Background Many low-and middle-income countries with a social health insurance system
face challenges on their road towards universal health coverage (UHC), especially for …

All people have a right to health. In poor countries, the challenge is to finance systems that
will deliver that right. After 20 years of one failed health financing mechanism–user fees …

'Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance: Staying the Course'is the fifth volume in a series of
in-depth reviews on the role of health care financing in improving access for low-income …

Introduction Many countries from the European region, which moved from a government
financed and provided health system to social health insurance, would have had the risk of …

A joint Wharton School–World Bank conference called attention to the high proportions of
medical care spending paid out of pocket in most developing countries. One of the reasons …

There has been an explosion of interest in the concept of 'universal health coverage', fuelled
by publication of the World Health Report 2010. This paper argues that the system of user …

Scarce economic resources, low or modest economic growth, constraints on the public
sector and low organisational capacity explain why the design of adequate health financing …

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 …