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Health financing in the developing world : supporting countries' search for viable systems
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ISBN: 9789054877752 9054877758 Year: 2011 Publisher: Brussel University Press Antwerp

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1. Basic patterns in national health expenditure - 2. An overview of health financing patterns and the way forward in the WHO African region - 3. Universal coverage of health services : tailoring its implementation - 4. Determinants of achieving universal coverage of health care : an empirical analysis - 5. Impact of risk sharing on the attainment of health system goals - 6. Impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure and impoverishment : a comparative analysis of three African countries - 7. Social health insurance development in low-income developing countries : new roles for government and nonprofit health insurance organizations in Africa and Asia - 8. Effectiveness of community health financing in meeting the cost of illness - 9. Community-based health insurance in developing countries : a study of its contribution to the performance of health financing systems - 10. Risk-pooling : necessary but not sufficient ? - 11. Scaling up community health insurance : Japan's expercience with the 19th century Jyorei scheme - 12. The reform of the rural cooperative medical system in the People's Republic of China : interim experience in 14 pilot countries - 13. A framework for best practices analysis in the Rural Cooperative Medical System of the P.R China - 14. Social health insurance in developing countries : a continuing challenge - 15. Social health insurance : key factors affecting the transition towards universal coverage - 16. Key performance indicators for the implementation of social health insurance - 17. Vietnam : the development of national health insurance - 18. Health financing reform in Kenya : assessing the social health insurance proposal - 19. Clarifying efficiency-equity tradeoffs through explicit criteria, with a focus on developing countries - 20. Provider payments and patient charges as policy tools for cost-containment : how successful are they in high-income countries


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Moving toward universal coverage of social health insurance in Vietnam : assessment and options
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ISBN: 1464802629 1464802610 Year: 2014 Publisher: Washington, DC : The World Bank,

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Over the past two decades Vietnam has made enormous progress towards achieving universal coverage (UC) for its population. Significant challenges remain, however, in terms of improving equity with continuing low rates of enrollment. Ensuring financial protection also remains an elusive goal. The Master Plan for Universal Coverage approved in 2012 by the Prime Minister directly addresses both these deficiencies in coverage. The objective of this report is to assess the implementation of Vietnam SHI and provide options for moving towards UC. This is a joint assessment with development partners,


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The tough luck constitution and the assault on health care reform
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ISBN: 0190260181 1299456790 0199970033 9780199970032 9780190260187 9780199970025 0199970025 0199970041 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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Chief Justice John Roberts stunned the nation by upholding the Affordable Care Act--more commonly known as Obamacare. But legal experts observed that the decision might prove a strategic defeat for progressives. Roberts grounded his decision on Congress's power to tax. He dismissed the claim that it is allowed under the Constitution's commerce clause, which has been the basis of virtually all federal regulation--now thrown in doubt. In The Tough Luck Constitution and the Assault on Health Care Reform, Andrew Koppelman explains how the Court's conservatives embraced the arguments of a fringe li

Class War? : What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality
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ISBN: 9786612239885 1282239880 0226644561 9780226644561 9780226644547 9780226644554 0226644545 0226644553 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Recent battles in Washington over how to fix America's fiscal failures strengthened the widespread impression that economic issues sharply divide average citizens. Indeed, many commentators split Americans into two opposing groups: uncompromising supporters of unfettered free markets and advocates for government solutions to economic problems. But such dichotomies, Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs contend, ring false. In Class War? they present compelling evidence that most Americans favor free enterprise and practical government programs to distribute wealth more e

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