Indian community health insurance schemes provide partial protection against catastrophic health expenditure
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>More than 72% of health expenditure in India is financed by individual households at the time of illness through out-of-pocket payments. This is a highly regressive way of financing health care and sometimes leads to impoverishment....
Main Authors: | Ranson Kent, Van Damme Wim, Criel Bart, Devadasan Narayanan, Van der Stuyft Patrick |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2007-03-01
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Series: | BMC Health Services Research |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/7/43 |
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