Insured but unequal: who really utilizes voluntary health insurance in Israel? Evidence from two consecutive cross-sectional studies. [PDF]
Isr J Health Policy ResBackground Financial pressures on health systems have increased in recent years. Voluntary health insurance (VHI) could, in principle, fill in the gaps in public coverage and funding.
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Understanding perception and factors influencing private voluntary health insurance policy subscription in the Lucknow region. [PDF]
Int J Health Policy Manag, 2015 Background Health insurance has been acknowledged by researchers as a valuable tool in health financing. In spite of its significance, a subscription paralysis has been observed in India for this product. People who can afford health insurance are also
Mathur T, Paul UK, Prasad HN, Das SC.
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Price elasticity of demand for voluntary health insurance plans in Colombia. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv Res, 2022 Background Since 1993, Colombia has had a mandatory social health insurance scheme that aims to provide universal health coverage to all citizens. However, some contributory regime participants purchase voluntary private health insurance (VPHI) to access
Casabianca MS +3 more
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Whether or not to enroll, and stay enrolled? A Tanzanian cross-sectional study on voluntary health insurance. [PDF]
Health Policy Open, 2023 Kagaigai A +3 more
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The role of risk preferences: voluntary health insurance in rural Tanzania. [PDF]
Health Econ Rev, 2023 Background Lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) have a common goal to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) through voluntary health insurance schemes.
Kagaigai A, Grepperud S.
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Introducing voluntary private health insurance in a mixed medical economy: are Hong Kong citizens willing to subscribe? [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2017 Background Struggling to correct the public-private imbalance in its health care system, the Hong Kong SAR Government seeks to introduce a government-regulated voluntary health insurance scheme, or VHIS, a distinctive financing instrument that combines ...
Alex Jingwei He
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Reducing private health expenditure in Greece: the case for regulated complementary health insurance. [PDF]
Front Public HealthGreece records the highest level of private health expenditure in the European Union, driven largely by out-of-pocket payments that undermine financial protection and exacerbate inequities.
Karakolias S +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2018 ObjectivesIn countries with universal health coverage (UHC), national public health insurances cover 70% of health expenditures on average, but health care user fees and out-of-pocket expenditures have been neglected in empirical patient-centered health ...
Stéphanie Baggio +3 more
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Incentives for voluntary health insurance in a national health system: Evidence from Italy
Health Policy, 2021 Anna Marenzi, Dino Rizzi
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Socioeconomic and programmatic determinants of renewal of membership in a voluntary micro health insurance scheme: evidence from Chakaria, Bangladesh [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2017 Background: Out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare expenditure is a major obstacle for achieving universal health coverage in low-income countries including Bangladesh.
Mohammad Iqbal +5 more
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