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| Jutting, Johannes Paul. |
| Access to public and private health insurance in rural areas of low income countries is severely constrained by high unit cost of transaction per contract due to information asymmetries between insurance sellers and buyers. This leads to a situation in which the majority of the poor have to rely on out-of-pocket expenditures when they are ill, resulting in a high vulnerability for health shocks which negatively affect the overall risk management of the household, investment and resource allocation decisions. Recently, however, in various parts of the world community based health insurance schemes have emerged and are becoming increasingly recognized as an instrument to finance health care in poor developing countries. These mutual insurance schemes often... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Rural development; Health insurance; Impact analysis; Social protection; Senegal; Health Economics and Policy; O17; I19; O55. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19641 |
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| Liu, Dan; Tsegai, Daniel W.. |
| The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) program was implemented in response to ‘illness-led poverty’ and poor state of healthcare in rural China. Supported by government subsidy, more and more poor rural households are now enrolled in the NCMS. This paper investigates the impact of the NCMS program on improving health care utilization and reducing medical expenditure with a specific focus on the endeavors to unravel the heterogeneous effects of the program for the different regions and income groups. We utilize the China Health and Nutrition Survey data (CHNS) to provide prolific cross section and longitudinal information. A total sample of 6,293 individuals and 2,058 households are included in the analysis. Propensity score matching method and bounding... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Rural China; Health insurance; Impact evaluation; Propensity score matching; Health Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116746 |
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