The Impact of Health Insurance Schemes for the Informal Sector in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : A Systematic Review

The Impact of Health Insurance Schemes for the Informal Sector in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : A Systematic Review

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 countries. A substantial number of papers provide estimations of average treatment on the tr...

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Main Authors: Acharya, Arnab, Vellakkal, Sukumar, Taylor, Fiona, Masset, Edoardo, Satija, Ambika, Burke, Margaret, Ebrahim, Shah
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2015
Subjects:
aging population
anxiety
diabetes
health care
health services
mortality
nutrition
public health
randomized controlled trials
health insurance
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21431

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