Health insurance schemes for people outside formal sector employment
- Geneva Division of Analysis, Research and Assessment 1997
- viii, 120p.
- Current Concerns ARA Paper No.16 .
Presents an analysis of schemes that seek to promote risk sharing of the cost of health care for persons outside formal sector employment. The schemes cover several aspects of health care delivery ranging from essential drugs to catastrophic illness requiring organised and implemented by different care providers. The analysis addresses their membership and coverage, financing, administration and fund management, payments to providers and health care provision mechanisms. It also discusses the relationship between the scheme and the broader health care system. Further discussions are on the context and assessment of the performance of these schemes.
Insurance, Health|Costs and Cost Analysis|Employment|Health Planning