Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance

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Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance

Author	: Alexander S. Preker
File Size	: 53,6 Mb
Publisher	: World Bank Publications
Language	: English
Release Date	: 31 May 2013
ISBN	: 9780821385791
Pages	: 778 pages

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Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance by Alexander S. Preker Book PDF Summary

This book presents an in-depth review on the role of health care financing in improving access for low-income populations to needed care, protecting them from the impoverishing effects of illness, and addressing the important issues of social exclusion in government financed programs.

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Financial protection against the cost of illness and inclusion of vulnerable groups will require better mobilization and use of private means. Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in mobilizing additional resources to the health sector and protecting against the catastrophic cost of illness in some countries. This

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