Indian community health insurance schemes provide partial protection against catastrophic health expenditure

• Main Authors: Ranson Kent (Author), Van Damme Wim (Author), Criel Bart (Author), Devadasan Narayanan (Author), Van der Stuyft Patrick (Author)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: BMC, 2007-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>More than 72% of health expenditure in India is financed by individual households at the time of illness through out-of-pocket payments. This is a highly regressive way of financing health care and sometimes leads to impoverishment....