Achieving Universal Health Coverage through Voluntary Insurance : What Can We Learn from the Experience of Lao PDR?
The Government of Lao Peoples’ Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has embarked on a path to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) through implementation of four risk-protection schemes. One of these schemes is community-based health insurance (CBHI) – a voluntary scheme that targets roughly half the po...
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okr-10986-231562021-04-23T14:04:13Z Achieving Universal Health Coverage through Voluntary Insurance : What Can We Learn from the Experience of Lao PDR? Alkenbrack, Sarah Jacobs, Bart Lindelow, Magnus community based health insurance risk protection health financing voluntary health insurance universal health coverage enrollment health insurance The Government of Lao Peoples’ Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has embarked on a path to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) through implementation of four risk-protection schemes. One of these schemes is community-based health insurance (CBHI) – a voluntary scheme that targets roughly half the population. However, after 12 years of implementation, coverage through CBHI remains very low. Increasing coverage of the scheme would require expansion to households in both villages where CBHI is currently operating, and new geographic areas. In this study we explore the prospects of both types of expansion by examining household and district level data. 2015-11-30T19:50:34Z 2015-11-30T19:50:34Z 2013-12-17 Journal Article BMC Health Services Research http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23156 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank BioMed Central Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific Lao People's Democratic Republic |
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The Government of Lao Peoples’ Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has embarked on a path to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) through implementation of four risk-protection schemes. One of these schemes is community-based health insurance (CBHI) – a voluntary scheme that targets roughly half the population. However, after 12 years of implementation, coverage through CBHI remains very low. Increasing coverage of the scheme would require expansion to households in both villages where CBHI is currently operating, and new geographic areas. In this study we explore the prospects of both types of expansion by examining household and district level data. |
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Alkenbrack, Sarah Jacobs, Bart Lindelow, Magnus |
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Alkenbrack, Sarah |
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Achieving Universal Health Coverage through Voluntary Insurance : What Can We Learn from the Experience of Lao PDR? |
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Achieving Universal Health Coverage through Voluntary Insurance : What Can We Learn from the Experience of Lao PDR? |
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achieving universal health coverage through voluntary insurance : what can we learn from the experience of lao pdr? |
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