Background Expanding public health insurance seeks to attain several desirable objectives,
including increasing access to healthcare services, reducing the risk of catastrophic …

Introduction Several low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) have implemented
health insurance programmes to foster accessibility to healthcare and reduce catastrophic …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of health insurance on resource mobilization, financial
protection, service utilization, quality of care, social inclusion and community empowerment …

Background Ensuring access to essential quality health services and reducing financial
hardship for all individuals regardless of their ability to pay are the main goals of universal …

Several publicly financed health insurance schemes have been launched in India with the
aim of providing universalizing health coverage (UHC). In this paper, we report the impact of …

Objective Universal Health Coverage aims to address the challenges posed by healthcare
inequalities and inequities by increasing the accessibility and affordability of healthcare for …

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 …

Health policy makers are faced with competing alternatives, and for systems of health care
financing. The choice of financing method should mobilize resources for health care and …

A central pillar of universal health coverage (UHC) is to achieve financial protection from
catastrophic health expenditure. There are concerns, however, that national health …

Introduction Low/middle-income countries (LMICs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are
increasingly turning to public contributory health insurance as a mechanism for removing …