TY - BOOK AU - Carrin,Guy TI - Health Financing for the Developing World: Supporting Countries' Search for Viable Systems SN - 9789054877752 AV - RA410.5 -- .H435 2011eb U1 - 338.433621091724 PY - 2011/// CY - Bruxelles PB - ASP KW - Medical economics -- Developing countries KW - Medical care -- Developing countries KW - Medical care, Cost of KW - Medical economics KW - Medical care -- Finance KW - Developing countries KW - Electronic books N1 - Front -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Overview and perspectives -- Part I Empirical facts on health expenditure -- Chapter 1 Basic patterns in national health expenditure -- Chapter 2 An overview of health financing patterns and the way forward in the WHO African Region -- Part II Reaching universal coverage -- Chapter 3 Universal coverage of health services: tailoring its implementation -- Chapter 4 Determinants of achieving universal coverage of health care: an empirical analysis -- Chapter 5 Impact of risk sharing on the attainment of health system goals -- Chapter 6 The impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure and impoverishment A comparative analysis of three African countries -- Part III Insurance-based approaches -- Chapter 7 Social health insurance development in low-income developing countries: new roles for government and nonprofit health insurance organizations in Africa and Asia -- Chapter 8 Effectiveness of community health financing in meeting the cost of illness -- Chapter 9 Community-based health insurance in developing countries: a study of its contribution to the performance of health financing systems -- Chapter 10 Risk-pooling - necessary but not sufficient? -- Chapter 11 Scaling up community health insurance: Japan's experience with the 19th century Jyorei scheme -- Chapter 12 The reform of the rural cooperative medical system in the People's Republic of China: interim experience in 14 pilot counties -- Chapter 13 A framework for the analysis of best practices in the Rural Co-operative Medical System of the P.R. China -- Chapter 14 Social health insurance in developing countries: A continuing challenge -- Chapter 15 Social health insurance: Key factors affecting the transition towards universal coverage; Chapter 16 Key performance indicators for the implementation of social health insurance -- Chapter 17 Vietnam - The development of national health insurance -- Chapter 18 Health financing reform in Kenya - assessing the social health insurance proposal -- Part IV Resource allocation and cost-containment concerns in health financing policy -- Chapter 19 Clarifying efficiency-equity trade-offs through explicit criteria, with a focus on developing countries -- Chapter 20 Provider payments and patient charges as policy tools for cost-containment: How successful are they in high-income countries? UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3115786 ER -