"One for all and all for one": Consensus-building within communities in rural India on their health microinsurance package

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy

Volumn 7, Issue , 2014, Pages 139-153

  Dror, David M ^a,b   Panda, Pradeep ^a   May, Christina ^c   Majumdar, Atanu ^a   Koren, Ruth ^d  

^a Micro Insurance Academy   (India)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Benefit package design; CBHI; Community based health insurance; Micro health insurance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY CARE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVIEW; PUBLIC OPINION; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84905502368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/RMHP.S66011     Document Type: Article

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