Research Catalog

Title

Private voluntary health insurance in development : friend or foe? / editors, Alexander S. Preker, Richard M. Scheffler, and Mark C. Bassett.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Preker, Alexander S., 1951-
• Scheffler, Richard M.
• Bassett, Mark C., 1957-

Description

xxvii, 424 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Health insurance > Developing countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The evolution of health insurance in developing countries / Alexander S. Preker -- 2. Insights on demand for private voluntary health insurance in less developed countries / Mark V. Pauly -- 3. Supply of private voluntary health insurance in low-income countries / Peter Zwifel, Boris B. Krey and Maurizio Tagli -- 4. Market outcomes, regulation, and policy recommendations / Peter Zweifel and Mark V. Pauly -- 5. Provision of a public benefit package alongside private voluntary health insurance / Peter C. Smith -- 6. Economics of private voluntary health insurance revisited / Philip Musgrove -- 7. Scope, limitations, and policy responses / Denis Drechsler and Johannes P. Jutting -- 8. Lessons for developing countries from the OECD / Francesca Colombo -- 9. Trends and regulatory challenges in harnessing private voluntary health insurance / Neelam Sekhri and William D. Savedoff -- 10. Financial and management best practice in private voluntary health insurance / Roger Bowie and Gayle Adams -- 11. Opportunities and constraints in management practices in sub-Saharan Africa / Ladi Awosika -- 12. Facilitating and safeguarding regulation in advanced market economies / Scott E. Harrington -- 13. Financial and other regulatory challenges in low-income countries / Hernan L. Fuenzalida-Puelma, Vijay Kalavakonda and Monica Caceres -- App. Review of the literature on voluntary private health insurance / Mark C. Bassett and Vincent M. Kane.

ISBN

• 082136619X
• 9780821366196
• 0821366203 (e-ISBN)
• 9780821366202 (e-ISBN)

LCCN

• 2006047585
• 9780821366196

OCLC

• ocm70167819
• SCSB-5931818

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries