The desirability and feasibility of scaling up community health insurance in low-income settings-Lessons from Armenia

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 509-520

  Poletti, Tim ^a   Balabanova, Dina ^a   Ghazaryan, Olga ^b   Kocharyan, Hasmik ^b   Hakobyan, Margarita ^b   Arakelyan, Karen ^c   Normand, Charles ^d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Oxfam ^*  (Armenia)

^c Support to Communities ^*  (Armenia)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Armenia; Community based health financing insurance; Decision making; Low income; Scaling up

Indexed keywords

HEALTH INSURANCE; LOW INCOME POPULATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL FINANCE;

ARMENIA; ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERVIEW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; POLITICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE; RURAL POPULATION; SCALE UP; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL INSURANCE; SOCIAL SECURITY;

ARMENIA; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DECISION MAKING; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; INTERVIEWS; POVERTY; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

ARMENIA; ASIA; EURASIA; WEST ASIA;

EID: 33845685217     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.09.005     Document Type: Article

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