In India, healthcare financing largely relies on direct out-of-pocket spending, which causes immense health-related financial burdens for the poor. Despite recent efforts by the government and the private...
This paper summarizes the literature on the impact of state subsidized or social health insurance schemes that have been offered, mostly on a voluntary basis, to the informal sector in low- and middle-income...
This paper summarizes the literature on the impact of state subsidized or social health insurance schemes that have been offered, mostly on a voluntary basis, to the informal sector in low- and middle-income...
In 2008, India launched Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a government subsidized health insurance scheme for the poor that covers secondary hospital care for Below Poverty Line (BPL) households...
The development objective of the Community-Based Health Insurance Project for Georgia is to test the feasibility and effectiveness of community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes in Georgia. The implementation...
Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) has become one of the key risk-protection schemes and is expected to play an important role in helping the country move toward universal coverage in the health sector...
Rwanda was recovering from the genocide of 1994, during which nearly a million of its people died. Gradually, the social fabric is being stitched together with support from the international community...
Rwanda was recovering from the genocide of 1994, during which nearly a million of its people died. Gradually, the social fabric is being stitched together with support from the international community...
Rwanda was recovering from the genocide of 1994, during which nearly a million of its people died. Gradually, the social fabric is being stitched together with support from the international community...
Rwanda has lived one of the most tragic moments of its history with the genocide of 1994, which resulted in nearly one million deaths, and the destruction of the social fabric of the country. Mutual aid...
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...
Community-based health insurance schemes are becoming increasingly recognized as an instrument to finance health care in developing countries. Taking the example of "les mutuelles de santes" (mutual health...