Implementing a Participatory Model of Micro Health Insurance Among Rural Poor with Evidence from Nepal

David Dror

Chapter 18 in Financing Micro Health Insurance:Theory, Methods and Evidence, 2018, pp 365-393 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The following sections are included:Data for the study were collected from three sources: a baseline study of 2,008 households, results of simulations, and actual results of the schemes.The prospective insurance beneficiaries designed the benefits package themselves through a game-like simulation method called CHAT.A novel alternative method to proxy WTP for health insurance estimated WTP as 4.5% of mean food expenditure.

Keywords: Microinsurance; Micro Health Insurance; Health Insurance; Community-Based Health Insurance; CBHI; Demand for Health Insurance; Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance; Microinsurance Package Design; Implementation of CBHI; Business Case of Microinsurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I13 I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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