Achieving Universal Health Coverage through Voluntary Insurance

• Tác giả: Sarah Alkenbrack
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 368.4 Government-sponsored insurance
• Thông tin xuất bản: BioMed Central, 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 304488
• Chủ đề: 1. community based health insurance; 2. health financing; 3. risk protection; 4. universal health coverage; 5. voluntary health insurance

Tóm tắt

The Government of Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has embarked on a path to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) through implementation of four risk-protection schemes. One of these schemes is community-based health insurance (CBHI) - a voluntary scheme that targets roughly half the population. However, after 12 years of implementation, coverage through CBHI remains very low. Increasing coverage of the scheme would require expansion to households in both villages where CBHI is currently operating, and new geographic areas. In this study we explore the prospects of both types of expansion by examining household and district level data.