Enrolment in community-based health insurance schemes in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 960-974

  Panda, Pradeep ^a,b   Chakraborty, Arpita ^a   Dror, David M ^a,c   Bedi, Arjun S ^d,e  

^a Micro Insurance Academy   (India)

^b Institute for Human Development   (India)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Bihar; Community based health insurance; enrolment; health microinsurance; rural India; self help groups; Uttar Pradesh

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SELF HELP; SOCIOECONOMICS;

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INDIA; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84926366923     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czt077     Document Type: Review

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