Publication: The Impact of the Degree of Risk-Sharing in Health Financing on Health System Attainment
Date
2001-09
ISSN
Published
2001-09
Author(s)
Carrin, Guy
Zeramdini, Riadh
Musgrove, Philip
Poullier, Jean-Pierre
Valentine, Nicole
Xu, Ke
Abstract
A simple econometric analysis is
undertaken concerning the impact of the degree of risk
sharing in countries' health financing organization on
the goals of the health system, as defined in the World
Health Report 2000, i.e., the level of health and its
distribution across the population, the level of
responsiveness and its distribution across the population,
and fair financing. The degree of risk sharing varies
according to whether countries have a universal coverage
system, financed via social health insurance or general
taxation, or systems with less well-developed coverage
including variants of social health insurance and/or general
taxation benefiting specific population groups. The research
undertook a classification of countries according to the
degree of risk sharing, based primarily on the health care
financing legislation of the World Health
Organization's 191 member states and on its data base
of Health System Profiles. The results obtained give
empirical support to the hypothesis that the degree of risk
sharing in health financing organizations impacts positively
on health system attainment, as measured by the five goals indicators.
Citation
“Carrin, Guy; Zeramdini, Riadh; Musgrove, Philip; Poullier, Jean-Pierre; Valentine, Nicole; Xu, Ke. 2001. The Impact of the Degree of Risk-Sharing in Health Financing on Health System Attainment. HNP discussion paper series;. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13762 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”