Health policy makers are faced with competing alternatives, and for systems of health care
financing. The choice of financing method should mobilize resources for health care and …

How to finance and provide health care for the more than 1.3 billion rural poor and informal
sector workers in low-and middle-income countries is one of the greatest challenges facing …

Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to
biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the Self Employed Women's Association's Medical Insurance Fund
in Gujarat in terms of insurance coverage according to income groups, protection of …

This article presents the results from an experimental evaluation of a voluntary health
insurance program for informal sector workers in Nicaragua. Costs of the premiums as well …

Objective Access to healthcare is mostly contingent on out-of-pocket spending (OOPS) by
health seekers, particularly in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). This would require …

The Indian health system is mainly funded by out-of-pocket payments. More than 80% of
health care expenditure is borne by individual households. Only about 3% of the population …

This report has been written for developing countries' policy makers and individuals in the
development community who are actively engaged in efforts to achieve universal health …

Many developing countries are trying to expand health insurance to achieve universal
coverage, yet enrolling informal sector workers and the rural population remains a …

Most community finance schemes have evolved in the context of severe economic
constraints, political instability, and lack of good governance. Usually government taxation …