Community-based health insurance: does it benefit the poor?

Local health insurance has become increasingly popular in developing countries over the past two decades. But do these schemes benefit the poor? How could they be improved? Research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Christian Medical College, Vellore, considers the quality of hysterectomy care in rural Gujarat for women belonging to a local health insurance scheme.

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