Private health insurance: implications for developing countries

Private health insurance is playing an increasing role in both high- and low-income countries, yet is poorly understood by researchers and policy-makers. This paper shows that the distinction between private and public health insurance is often exaggerated since well regulated private insurance mark...

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Main Authors: Neelam Sekhri, William Savedoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2005-02-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862005000200013&lng=en&tlng=en