Health financing in the developing world : supporting countries' search for viable systems / / Guy Carrin, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807850603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Brussel, Belgium : , : University Press Antwerp, , 2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (462 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CarrinGuy
• Disciplina: 338.433621091724
• Soggetti: Medical economics - Developing countries; Medical care - Developing countries; Medical care, Cost of; Medical economics; Medical care - Finance; Developing countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front ""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Overview and perspectives""; ""Part I Empirical facts on health expenditure""; ""Chapter 1 Basic patterns in national health expenditure""; ""Chapter 2 An overview of health financing patterns and the way forward in the WHO African Region""; ""Part II Reaching universal coverage""; ""Chapter 3 Universal coverage of health services: tailoring its implementation""; ""Chapter 4 Determinants of achieving universal coverage of health care: an empirical analysis""; ""Chapter 5 Impact of risk sharing on the attainment of health system goals""""Chapter 6 The impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure and impoverishment A comparative analysis of three African countries ""; ""Part III Insurance-based approaches""; ""Chapter 7 Social health insurance development in low-income developing countries: new roles for government and nonprofit health insurance organizations in Africa and Asia""; ""Chapter 8 Effectiveness of community health financing in meeting the cost of illness""; ""Chapter 9 Community-based health insurance in developing countries: a study of its contribution to the performance of health financing systems""""Chapter 10 Risk-pooling necessary but not sufficient?""; ""Chapter 11 Scaling up community health insurance: Japan's experience with the 19th century Jyorei scheme""; ""Chapter 12 The reform of the rural cooperative medical system in the People's Republic of China: interim experience in 14 pilot counties""; ""Chapter 13 A framework for the analysis of best practices in the Rural Co-operative Medical System of the P.R. China""; ""Chapter 14 Social health insurance in developing countries: A continuing challenge""""Chapter 15 Social health insurance: Key factors affecting the transition towards universal coverage""; ""Chapter 16 Key performance indicators for the implementation of social health insurance""; ""Chapter 17 Vietnam The development of national health insurance""; ""Chapter 18 Health financing reform in Kenya assessing the social health insurance proposal""; ""Part IV Resource allocation and cost-containment concerns in health financing policy""; ""Chapter 19 Clarifying efficiency-equity trade-offs through explicit criteria, with a focus on developing countries""""Chapter 20 Provider payments and patient charges as policy tools for cost-containment: How successful are they in high-income countries?""