Political decentralisation and community health insurance: protecting from cost of treatment-induced poverty
- Author Godwin S K
- DOI http://wwj
- Country : India
- Subject : Economics
Keywords : Political decentralisation, Community health insurance, Willingness to pay, CV Method, Impoverishment
Abstract
Access to affordable health care has been one of the prime objectives of all health systems and among the methods of financing household out-of-pocket payments at the point of delivery of service creates the maximum barriers to effective utilisation of health care especially by the lower income groups. Community financing at the local level garnering the scope of political decentralisation is a viable financing mechanism to address impoverishing effects of curative health payments. A pilot survey undertaken to elicit willingness to pay for community-based insurance program had seen substantial majority interested in the program and willing to be pay too.
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