Feasibility of community-based health insurance in rural tropical Ecuador

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 177-184

  Eckhardt, Martin ^a   Forsberg, Birger Carl ^b   Wolf, Dorothee ^c   Crespo Burgos, Antonio ^d  

^a Ostergotland County Council   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Ecuador; Feasibility studies; Health insurance; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICES; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RURAL AREA; TROPICAL REGION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONSUMER; COOPERATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; ECUADOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TRUST;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECUADOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INSURANCE CARRIERS; NOT-FOR-PROFIT INSURANCE PLANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRUST;

ECUADOR;

EID: 79954440450     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: 16805348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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