Health insurance
Time for a change? Health insurance systems in Transitional Asia
Time for a change? Health insurance systems in Transitional Asia
Authors:
Tim Ensor; Centre for Health Economics, University of York, UK
Publisher:
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
The transition from state-planned to market- based economies in some Asian countries has produced a decline in public funding of health systems. Insurance programmes are increasingly used to make up this shortfall. How does this affect access to healthcare? What can be learnt from the performance of social insurance schemes in Latin America?
