The impact of SEWA's medical insurance fund on hospital utilization and expenditure: a household survey (English)

This paper assesses the impact of the Self-Employed Women's Association's (SEWA's) Medical Insurance Fund, Gujarat, in terms of inclusion of the poor, hospital utilization, and expenditure. Age-matched insured and uninsured women were compared using survey data (2000). The authors found that wealth was not a determinant of membership in the Fund; i.e., the poor were not excluded. Of 28 hospitalizations among Fund members over one year, only five were...
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Ranson,Michael Kent.

The impact of SEWA's medical insurance fund on hospital utilization and expenditure: a household survey (English). HNP discussion paper series Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/268801468771277619

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