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Good Practices in Health Financing: Lessons from Reforms in Low-and Middle-Income Countries attempts to begin to fill the void by systematically assessing health financing reforms in nine law-and middle-income countries that have managed to expand their health financing systems to both improve health status and protect against catastrophic medical expenses. The participating countries are: Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Estonia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, and Vietnam. The study seeks to identify common enabling factors of their good performance. While the findings for each country are important, collectively they send a clear message to the global community that more attention is needed to define “good practice” and then to evaluate and disseminate the global evidence base.
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