Erratum: State budget transfers to Health Insurance Funds for universal health coverage: Institutional design patterns and challenges of covering those outside the formal sector in Eastern European high-income countries (International Journal for Equity in Health (2016) 15:7 DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0295-y);State budget transfers to Health Insurance Funds for universal health coverage: Institutional design patterns and challenges of covering those outside the formal sector in Eastern European high-income countries

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Vilcu, Ileana ^a   Mathauer, Inke ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Financial protection; Government subsidization of health insurance; State budget transfers; Universal health coverage; Vulnerable population groups outside formal sector work

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; DESIGN METHOD; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICES; LITERATURE REVIEW; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; BENEFIT PACKAGE DESIGN; CONTRIBUTION EXEMPTION; CROATIA; CZECH REPUBLIC; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ESTONIA; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH INSURANCE ELIGIBILITY; HIGH INCOME COUNTRY; HUMAN; HUNGARY; INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOVAKIA; SLOVENIA; SOCIAL SECURITY; STATE BUDGET TRANSFER; TAX; EASTERN EUROPE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; INSURANCE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

EASTERN EUROPE;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EUROPE, EASTERN; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

EID: 84954530361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0333-9     Document Type: Erratum

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