Community-based health insurance and social protection policy (English)

Of all the risks facing poor households, health risks pose the greatest threat to their lives and livelihoods. A health shock adds health expenditures to the burden of the poor precisely at the time when they can afford it the least. One of the ways that poor communities manage health risks, in combination with publicly financed health care services, are community-based health insurance schemes (CBHIs). These are small scale, voluntary health insurance...

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Tabor,Steven R.;
Document Date
2005/03/01
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Working Paper (Numbered Series)
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32545
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Community-based health insurance and social protection policy
Keywords
access to basic health service

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Tabor,Steven R..

Community-based health insurance and social protection policy (English). Social Protection discussion paper series no. 503 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/167791468329482830

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