Indian community health insurance schemes provide partial protection against catastrophic health expenditure

BACKGROUND: More than 72% of health expenditure in India is financed by individual households at the time of illness through out-of-pocket payments. This is a highly regressive way of financing health care and sometimes leads to impoverishment. Health insurance is recommended as a measure to protect...

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Autores principales: Devadasan, Narayanan, Criel, Bart, Van Damme, Wim, Ranson, Kent, Van der Stuyft, Patrick
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1852553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17362506
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-7-43

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1852553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17362506
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-7-43

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