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Health insurance scheme performance and effects on health and health inequalities in Chile
(Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba, 2017)
INTRODUCTION Health systems are one determinant of health; their role is to facilitate timely and equitable access to quality services. The way in which a health system is organized can profoundly affect achievement of its ...
Health insurance scheme performance and effects on health and health inequalities in Chile
(Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba, 2017)
INTRODUCTION Health systems are one determinant of health; their role is to facilitate timely and equitable access to quality services. The way in which a health system is organized can profoundly affect achievement of its ...
National Health Insurance: A conceptual framework from conflicting typologies
(Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2019)
In the path to universal health coverage, policymakers discuss different alternative health system's financing schemes. Classical typologies have been posited, including models such as National Health Service, Social Health ...
Private health insurance and utilization of health services in Chile
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2006)
This paper analyses the choice of private health insurance in Chile and how this relates to the utilization of health services. The results show the importance of some demographics on the insurance decision, particularly ...
Progressive segmented health insurance: Colombian health reform and access to health services
Equal access for poor populations to health services is a comprehensive objective for any health reform. The Colombian health reform addressed this issue through a segmented progressive social health insurance approach. ...
Public policy for pensions, health and sickness insurance
(ECLAC, 2006-01)
This document is prepared by Edward Palmer, Consultant of the Project ¨Inclusion of the European Nordic Model in the debate concerning reform of social protection schemes in Latin American and the Caribbean¨ (SWE/05/001). ...
Comprehensive Health Insurance and access to maternal healthcare services among Peruvian women: a cross-sectional study using the 2021 national demographic survey.
(BioMed Central, 2023)
BACKGROUND: The government-subsidized health insurance scheme Seguro Integral de Salud ("SIS") was introduced in Peru initially to provide coverage to uninsured and poor pregnant women and children under five years old ...
Public policy for pensions, health and sickness insurance: potential lessons from Sweden for Latin America
(ECLAC, 2006-07)
Abstract This paper discusses the rationale of social insurance and social insurance institutions as they have emerged and developed in economically mature nations. The aim of the paper is to present discuss experience ...
Financial protection for the poor in Colombia: the effects of a subsidized health insurance scheme
(Universidad del RosarioFacultad de Economía, 2017)
Financial protection is one of the objectives of health systems, which protects poor households from falling into poverty as a result of health care related expenses. Expanding prepayment schemes to the poor is difficult ...