PhilHealth coverage in the informal sector: Identifying determinants of enrollment
Silfverberg, Denise Valerie | January 2016
Abstract
One of the schemes of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is the Individually Paying Program (IPP), the voluntary component of the country's social health insurance. Those enrolled in the IPP scheme are individuals who opt to pay for their own membership. They generally include the self-employed, self-earning, and those in occupations without a formal employer-employee relationship, such as the informal sector. This Policy Note aims to identify the determinants of enrollment into the IPP. Identifying predisposing factors will allow for better and more efficient targeting of the sectors of the population that are otherwise difficult to capture.
Citation
Silfverberg, Denise Valerie. 2016. PhilHealth coverage in the informal sector: Identifying determinants of enrollment. © Philippine Institute for Development Studies. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/6441.ISSN
1656-5266
Keywords
Health aid
Medical Statistics
Child Nutrition
Health Costs
Medical Economics
Health System Developments
Urban Health Services
Rural Health Services
Health Service Management
Health Care Quality
Health Aspects of Poverty
Child Health
Medical and health care industry
Delivery of health care
Prevention of disease
Nutrition and state
Sanitation systems
Health status indicators
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