Estimating Health Insurance Impacts under Unobserved Heterogeneity : The Case of Vietnam's Health Care Fund for the Poor

Estimating Health Insurance Impacts under Unobserved Heterogeneity : The Case of Vietnam's Health Care Fund for the Poor

Vietnam's health care fund for the poor (HCFP) uses government revenues to finance health care for the poor, ethnic minorities living in selected mountainous provinces, and all households living in communes officially designated as highly disadvantaged. As of 2006, the program, which started in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wagstaff, Adam
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
Subjects:
National Government Expenditures and Health H510
Health: Government Policy
Regulation
Public Health I180
Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs
Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380
Economics of Minorities and Races
Non-labor Discrimination J150
Economic Development: Human Resources
Human Development
Income Distribution
Migration O150
Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics
Health
Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty P360
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5008

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