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.
Citation
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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