Role of Non-governmental Organizations in Micro Health Insurance Schemes: A Case Study from India

Savitha Basri ()
Additional contact information
Savitha Basri: Manipal Institute of Management, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

A chapter in Financial Inclusion in Emerging Markets, 2021, pp 115-150 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Financing health expenses has been a difficult task especially for poor households in India. Iatrogenic poverty in India has been on the rise owing to a high level of out of pocket payments where the households meet the medical expenses by borrowing from usurious or selling productive assets. Despite several efforts of the government in providing affordable health care services and insurance coverage, a high level of out-of-pocket expenditures and consequent impoverishment of the poor is still evident. Realizing the need to ensure increased access to health facilities, reduce hardship financing, and improve the quality of health care, several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have implemented micro health insurance (MHI) programs. One of the well-known MHI coverage in Karnataka in India is Sampoorna Suraksha Programme (SSP). This paper evaluates the relationship between program features and its outcomes, and the challenges faced by SSP in achieving health care goals.

Keywords: Health care financing; Financial protection; Micro health insurance; Technical; Organizational; Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-2652-4_6

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9789811626524

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-2652-4_6

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().