Fair health financing and catastrophic health expenditures: Potential impact of the coverage extension of the Popular Health Insurance in Mexico;Justicia financiera y gastos catastróficos en salud: Impacto del Seguro Popular de Salud en México

Salud Publica de Mexico

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Knaul, Felicia ^a   Arreola Ornelas, Héctor ^b   Méndez, Oscar ^b   Martínez, Alejandra ^b  

^a Fundación Mexicana para la Salud ^*

^b Fundacion Mexicana para la Salud AC   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Catastrophic health expenditures; Fair finance; Mexico; Popular Health Insurance; System for social protection in health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEXICO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 23444433769     PISSN: 00363634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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