Pooling health risk to protect people : an assessment of health insurance coverage in Philippines (English)

Taking the Philippines Health Financing Strategy (HFS) 2010–2020 objective of ‘sustaining membership in PhilHealth for all Filipinos’ as its point of departure, this report assesses the expansion of health insurance coverage in the Philippines and the extent to which it provides protection from out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending. The report commences with a description of the organization of social health insurance through PhilHealth, the different...

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Bredenkamp,Caryn;

Gomez,Maria Vida A.;

Bales,Sarah;
Document Date
2017/01/01
Document Type
Working Paper
Report Number
121816
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Philippines,
Region
East Asia and Pacific,
Disclosure Date
2017/12/03
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Pooling health risk to protect people : an assessment of health insurance coverage in Philippines
Keywords
health insurance coverage

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Bredenkamp,Caryn; Gomez,Maria Vida A.; Bales,Sarah.

Pooling health risk to protect people : an assessment of health insurance coverage in Philippines (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/770741512371309140

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