Schneider, Pia | 2004
- Author(s): Schneider, Pia
- Publisher:
- Pages: 349--355
- Keywords: health economics, health insurance, decision-making, poverty, households
This article reviews the economic and social literature on theories of decision-making, and presents empirical findings from different socio-economic contexts to describe individuals’ insurance enrolment decisions in a low-income environment.
Schneider, Pia and Diop, François | 2001
- Author(s): Schneider, Pia and Diop, François
- Publisher: World bank
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health economics, health insurance, health care delivery, poverty, rwanda
This paper evaluates the impact of prepayment schemes on access to health care for poor households, based on household survey data. Rwanda is one of the poorest countries in the world. In 1994 public health care services were provided for free to patients, financed by donors and the government.
Schneider, Pia and Hanson, Kara | 2007
- Author(s): Schneider, Pia and Hanson, Kara
- Publisher:
- Pages: 40--48
- Keywords: health economics, health insurance, health centres, rwanda
There is little empirical evidence on implications of payment mechanisms for provider behaviour and cost from developing countries. This study examines this issue based on information collected during a pilot study of micro health insurance (MHI) in three districts of Rwanda.
Schramm, Bernd | 2005
- Author(s): Schramm, Bernd
- Publisher: Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) [etc.]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health economics, health insurance, poverty
This paper examens different models of health care financing. It sets out the potential and the limits of social health insurance systems in developing countries, a model that could be a possible route towards sustainable financing, organisation and administration of the health sector.
Schwind, Bettina | 2010
- Author(s): Schwind, Bettina
- Publisher: Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health care delivery, health services, health insurance, poverty, vietnam
This paper presents some of the research evidence on barriers to health care services encountered by poor and ethnic minority people from Northwest Vietnam. It refers, in particular, to the Health Care Fund for the Poor - a social health insurance scheme aimed at people from these two social groups.