Adverse selection in a community-based health insurance scheme in rural Africa: Implications for introducing targeted subsidies

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Parmar, Divya ^a,c   Souares, Aurélia ^a   De Allegri, Manuela ^a   Savadogo, Germain ^a,b   Sauerborn, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN SANTÉ DE NOUNA   (Burkina Faso)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Burkina Faso; Community based health insurance; Fixed effects; Subsidy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; COMMUNITY CARE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MALE; RURAL POPULATION;

BURKINA FASO; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84862758952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-181     Document Type: Article

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