Mutual health insurance in Rwanda: Evidence on access to care and financial risk protection

Health Policy

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 203-209

  Saksena, Priyanka ^a   Antunes, Adélio Fernandes ^b   Xu, Ke ^a   Musango, Laurent ^a   Carrin, Guy ^c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b Financial Systems Development Section   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Access to care; Catastrophic health expenditure; Mutual health insurance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; MUTUAL HEALTH INSURANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RWANDA; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; RWANDA;

EID: 79551596844     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.09.009     Document Type: Article

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