Summary |
The book is divided in 3 parts.
Major policy challenges and preconditions for scaling up health insurance coverage in low and middle income countries are explored in the first part of this book.
Chapters covered are as below -
1. Health protection: more than financial protection
2. Making health insurance affordable: role of risk equalization
3. Reaching the poor: transfers from rich to poor and from healthy to sick
4. Binding constraints on public funding: prospects for creating 'fiscal space'
5. Universal coverage: a global consensus
Part 2 covers the theories, policies and contributions from different countries
1. The french connection in francophone Africa
2. Big Bang reforms in anglophone Africa
3. Moving from intent to action in the Middle East and North Africa
4. One step, two step tango in Latin America and the Caribbean
5. Orient express in south, East, and Pacific Asia
6.Bismarck's unfinished business in Western Europe
7. From cradle to grave in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Elsewhere
8. Great post communist experiment in eastern Europe and Central Asia
Part 3 discusses the various challenges in implementation of reforms
1. Political economy of reform
2. Institutions matter
3. Accountability and choice
4. Regulatory and supervisory challenges
5. Implementing change
6. New development paradigm
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