Incentives in Community-based Health Insurance Schemes: 43 (Development Economics & Policy) - Softcover

Kaiser, F. Markus

 
9783631526873: Incentives in Community-based Health Insurance Schemes: 43 (Development Economics & Policy)
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ISBN 10: 3631526873 ISBN 13: 9783631526873
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, 2004

Synopsis

The author presents a promising tool to increase the coverage rate of community-based health insurance schemes (CBHI) and access to medical care for poor population groups in developing countries. He addresses a key problem of CBHI: Authorities cannot sanction non-members and membership cannot be enforced. Therefore, it is proposed to award membership by offering incentives such as raffle participation for joining a CBHI. This approach attracts new members and can be a motivation to continue membership payments of healthy insurance members. The results of an ex-ante demand analysis conducted in the Philippines are promising. More than 80 % of the respondents would like to participate in the raffle and would even agree to higher premium payments covering additional costs of the raffle.

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About the Author

The Author: F. Markus Kaiser studied Health Sciences and Political Science in Kiel, Bielefeld and Oslo. He currently works for the AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, Tainan (Taiwan) as a Grant Development Coordinator.

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Publisher
Peter Lang GmbH
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3631526873
ISBN 13 
9783631526873
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
110

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