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    Seeking Universal Health Coverage of Social Health Insurance in Three Asian Countries: China, Thailand, and Viet Nam

    Talampas, Rolando G. | December 2016
    Abstract
    What do countries do to achieve universal health coverage? What problems do they encounter? What can the Philippines learn from them? This essay seeks to provide some answers to these questions by reviewing lessons from select examples. While social health insurance (SHI) schemes vary according to country circumstances, they remain the chief means to achieving widest inclusion of people who are in dire need of health care. SHI schemes in various countries initiated by governments—and sometimes by private entities—are meant as an alternative to tax payments and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures in times of medical needs. They are expected to reduce OOP by pooling members’ contributions into a fund where payments for health-care services will be drawn. Such pooled money, which constitutes the bulk of SHI funds, is in the hands of the government.
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    Talampas, Rolando G.. 2016. Seeking Universal Health Coverage of Social Health Insurance in Three Asian Countries: China, Thailand, and Viet Nam. © Philippine Institute for Development Studies. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/6840.
    Keywords
    Good Governance
    Governance Approach
    Governance Models
    World Health Organization
    Quality of Health Care
    Public Health Finance
    Private Health Care
    Healthier Families
    Nutrition and Health Care
    Health Statistics
    Health Objectives
    Health Issues
    Health Care Cost Control
    Political Leadership
    Public Administration
    Traditional Medicine
    Medical Statistics
    Medical Services
    Medical Costs
    Health Costs
    Medical Aspects
    Child Nutrition
    Disease Control
    Diseases
    Civil government
    Common good
    Federal government
    Delivery of government services
    Government missions
    Taxation
    Public health records
    Cost of medical care
    Nutrition policy
    Health status indicators
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