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Good Practices in Health Financing : Lessons from Reforms in Low and Middle-Income Countries

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dc.contributor.authorGottret, Pablo
dc.contributor.authorSchieber, George J.
dc.contributor.authorWaters, Hugh R.
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-25T18:14:16Z
dc.date.available2012-05-25T18:14:16Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThis volume focuses on nine countries that have completed, or are well along in the process of carrying out, major health financing reforms. These countries have significantly expanded their people's health care coverage or maintained such coverage after prolonged political or economic shocks. In doing so, this report seeks to expand the evidence base on good performance in health financing reforms in low- and middle-income countries. The countries chosen for the study were Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Estonia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, and Vietnam. With health at the center of global development policy on humanitarian as well as economic and health security grounds, the international community and developing countries are closely focused on scaling up health systems to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), improving financial protection, and ensuring long-term financing to sustain these gains. With the scaling up of aid, both donors and countries have come to realize that money alone cannot buy health gains or prevent impoverishment due to catastrophic medical bills. This realization has sent policy makers looking for reliable evidence about what works and what does not, but they have found little to guide their search.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/01/9660400/good-practices-health-financing-lessons-reforms-low-middle-income-countries
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/978-0-8213-7511-2
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-8213-7511-2
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/6442
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC : World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectFINANCIAL PROTECTION
dc.subjectHEALTHCARE COVERAGE
dc.subjectHEALTH FINANCING REFORMS
dc.subjectHEALTH SYSTEMS
dc.subjectIMPOVERISHMENT
dc.subjectLONG-TERM FINANCING
dc.titleGood Practices in Health Financing : Lessons from Reforms in Low and Middle-Income Countriesen
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okr.date.disclosure2008-07-15
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Publication
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Publication
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/01/9660400/good-practices-health-financing-lessons-reforms-low-middle-income-countries
okr.globalpracticeHealth, Nutrition, and Population
okr.globalpracticeGovernance
okr.globalpracticeHealth, Nutrition, and Population
okr.guid987711468315362167
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/978-0-8213-7511-2
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum000333037_20080709235640
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum9660400
okr.identifier.report44644
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2008/07/09/000333037_20080709235640/Rendered/PDF/446440PUB0Heal101OFFICIAL0USE0ONLY1.pdfen
okr.sectorNon-compulsory health finance,Health
okr.sectorFinance,Health and other social services
okr.topicLaw and Development::Health Law
okr.topicHealth Economics and Finance
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Population Policies
okr.topicHealth Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.topicHealth Systems Development and Reform
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population
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