Title Good practices in health financing : lessons from reforms in low and middle-income countries / Pablo Gottret, George J. Schieber, and Hugh R. Waters, editors

Published Washington, DC : World Bank, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 504 pages) : illustrations Series World Bank e-Library. Contents Foreword; Acknowledgments; Executive Summary; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Part 1 Assessing Good Practice in Health Financing Reform; Figure 1.1 Determinants of Health, Nutrition, and Population Outcomes; Box 2A Measures of Financial Protection in Tunisia; Figure 2A.1 Payments as Share of Total and Nonfood Expenditure in Tunisia, 2003; Table 2A.1 Catastrophic Impact of Out-of-Pocket Payments in Threshold Expenditure Shares in Tunisia, 2003; Table 3.1 Income and Health Spending, 2004; Table 3.2 Health Outcome and Delivery Indicators, 2005 Summary This 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 (e.g., following the collapse ofthe Soviet Union). 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Medical care -- Developing countries -- Finance Health care reform -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries Medical policy -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries Medical care, Cost of -- Developing countries Health status indicators -- Developing countries Medical care, Cost of. Health Care Reform -- economics Health Care Reform -- standards Health Care Costs Health Expenditures Delivery of Health Care -- economics Developing Countries MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment. Health care reform -- Economic aspects Health status indicators Medical care, Cost of Medical care -- Finance Medical policy -- Economic aspects Gesundheitswesen Finanzierung Nachhaltigkeit Sjukvård -- finansiering -- U-länder. Sjukvårdsreformer -- ekonomiska aspekter -- U-länder. Sjukvårdskostnader -- U-länder. Developing countries Entwicklungsländer Genre/Form Statistics Statistics. Statistiques. Form Electronic book Author Gottret, Pablo E. (Pablo Enrique), 1959- Schieber, George. Waters, Hugh. World Bank. LC no. 2008008389 ISBN 9780821375112 0821375113 9780821375129 0821375121 1281744654 9781281744654 6611744657 9786611744656

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