Access to and Financing of Healthcare through Health Insurance Intervention in India

Shailender Hooda

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Abstract: Health insurance is expected to promote equity in access to health, financial protection, reduce escalating healthcare cost, enhance provider networks and enable country to make an optimal use of limited resources through targeting, but empirical evidences on the issue are limited in India. This study evaluates the impact of health insurance on these issues.

Keywords: Literatures; methodology; preventive; health care; uninsured; out-of-pocket; Health for All; insurance; perspective; pro-poor; non-intervention; case-control; health care; Health care insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-12
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