Pooling Health Risk to Protect People: An Assessment of Health Insurance Coverage in Philippines

doi:10.1596/29047

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Pooling Health Risk to Protect People: An Assessment of Health Insurance Coverage in Philippines

dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2017-12-19T19:57:47Z
dc.date.available	2017-12-19T19:57:47Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.description.abstract	Taking the Philippines Health Financing Strategy (HFS) 2010–2020 objective of ‘sustaining membership in PhilHealth for all Filipinos’ as its point of departure, this report assesses the expansion of health insurance coverage in the Philippines and the extent to which it provides protection from out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending. The report commences with a description of the organization of social health insurance through PhilHealth, the different PhilHealth membership groups, their eligibility criteria, contribution structure, and benefits. Using both administrative data and household surveys, the report then analyzes the patterns and trends in PhilHealth membership over time and discusses the drivers of membership expansion among different membership groups. Because the HFS and the country’s health insurance laws stress the link between the objective of sustaining membership in PhilHealth and the attainment of equity and financial protection goals, the equity dimension of PhilHealth membership gets special attention. In this regard, the report looks at equity in coverage, contributions, benefit design, and benefit payments, as well as performance on financial protection measures. It concludes by proposing some future directions, together with associated specific recommendations.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/770741512371309140/Pooling-health-risk-to-protect-people-an-assessment-of-health-insurance-coverage-in-Philippines
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/29047
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/29047
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	HEALTH INSURANCE
dc.subject	EQUITY
dc.subject	HEALTH COVERAGE
dc.subject	HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM
dc.title	Pooling Health Risk to Protect People	en
dc.title.subtitle	An Assessment of Health Insurance Coverage in Philippines	en
dc.type	Report	en
dc.type	Rapport	fr
dc.type	Informe	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Pooling Health Risk to Protect People
okr.date.disclosure	2017-12-03
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work::Other Health Study
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/770741512371309140/Pooling-health-risk-to-protect-people-an-assessment-of-health-insurance-coverage-in-Philippines
okr.guid	770741512371309140
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/29047
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	090224b0853d01e6_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	29135854
okr.identifier.report	121816
okr.imported	true	en
okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/770741512371309140/pdf/121816-WP-P133115-PUBLIC-Philippines-report-on-Pooling-Health-Risks-to-Protect-People.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	East Asia and Pacific
okr.region.country	Philippines
okr.theme	Human development :: Health system performance
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Economics & Finance
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Insurance
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Service Management and Delivery
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Systems Development & Reform
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty and Health
okr.unit	HNP EAP Region (GHN02)

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