Community Involvement in Health Care Financing : A Survey of the Literature on the Impact, Strengths, and Weaknesses

The paper reviews 45 published and unpublished reports on community financing completed between 1990 and 2001. The main objective of the study was to explore performance measures reported in the literature regarding community financing. The study concluded that the reviewed literature is rich in describing scheme design and implementation. At the same time, evidence on the performance of community financing schemes is limited. The study focused on reporting measures on three indicators in particular: Resource mobilization capacity. Community financing mechanisms mobilize significant resources for health care. However, there is a large variation in the resource mobilization capacity of various schemes. This review did not find systematic estimates about how much community financing contributes to health revenues at the local and/or national level. Social inclusion. Community financing is effective in reaching a large number of low-income populations who would otherwise have no financial protection against the cost of illness. There is large variation in the size of various schemes. At the same time, there are no estimates about the total population covered through community financing. There are indications that the poorest and socially excluded groups are not automatically reached by community financing initiatives. Financial protection. Community-based health financing schemes are systematically reported to reduce the out-of-pocket spending of their members while increasing their utilization of health care services..

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E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

2013

Erschienen:

Washington, DC: World Bank ; 2013

Reihe:

HNP discussion paper series

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jakab, Melitta [VerfasserIn]
Krishnan, Chitra [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

ACCOUNTABILITY
ADVERSE SELECTION
COMMUNITIES
COMMUNITY ACTION
COMMUNITY CONTROL
COMMUNITY FINANCING
COMMUNITY HEALTH
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
COMMUNITY MEMBERS
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
COMPARATIVE STUDIES
COST SHARING
DRUGS
ECONOMIES OF SCALE
EMPLOYMENT
EXPENDITURES
HEALTH CARE
HEALTH CARE FINANCING
HEALTH CARE REFORM
HEALTH CARE SERVICES
HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION
HEALTH ECONOMICS
HEALTH FINANCE
HEALTH FINANCING
HEALTH INSURANCE
HEALTH POLICY
HEALTH SECTOR
HEALTH SERVICES
HEALTH SYSTEM
HEALTH SYSTEMS
HOSPITALIZATION
INCOME
INFORMAL SECTOR
INSURANCE
INSURANCE SYSTEMS
INSURERS
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
ISOLATION
LESSONS LEARNED
LOW INCOME
LOW- INCOME COUNTRIES
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
MEDICINE
MUTUAL AID
NUTRITION
OUTREACH
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
PHYSICAL DISABILITY
PILOT TESTS
POLICY RESEARCH
POVERTY & HEALTH
PREGNANT WOMEN
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
PRIVATE INSURANCE
PUBLIC SECTOR
PURCHASING
RISK SHARING
SELECTION BIAS
SOCIAL EXCLUSION
SOCIAL INSURANCE
SOCIAL MOBILIZATION
USER FEES
WORKERS HEALTH CARE

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Weitere IDs:

10986/13706

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

797592725