Seeking universal health coverage of social health insurance in three Asian countries: China, Thailand, and Viet Nam
Talampas, Rolando G. | December 2016
Abstract
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 Healthcare. 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.
SHI is generally supported by different forms of state subsidy, sometimes foreign funded as in the case of Viet Nam, or by taxes on alcohol and tobacco products. Recently, SHIs are employed to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) so that no person is left without the means to access or even pay for Healthcare. While advanced economies have achieved UHC, SHIs in developing countries are “typically characterized by large-scale exclusion”
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/11540/9229.ISSN
2508-0865
Keywords
Aged Health
Civil Society Development
Infrastructure Development
Infrastructure Development Projects
Technology Development
Underdevelopment
Health Risk
Health for All
Health and Hygiene and the Poor
Quality of Healthcare
Public Health
Partnerships in Health Reform
Health Systems
Nutrition and Healthcare
Education, Health and Social Protection
Access to Healthcare
Medication
Access to Medicine
Project finance
Development programs
Development strategy
Government programs
Infrastructure projects
Industrial development
Social change
Sanitation
Diseases
Water Quality
Health Hazards
Healthcare Services
Health Standards
Health Service Management
Health Costs
Electronics
Computers
Child Development
Prenatal Care
Nutrition Programs
Child Nutrition
Child Development
Medical Statistics
Drug Policy
Preventive Medicine
Medical Economics
Infrastructure
Central planning
Developing countries
Partnership
Joint venture
Limited partnership
Strategic alliances
Sanitary engineering
Sanitation systems
Sanitation services
Sanitary affairs
Delivery of Healthcare
Prevention of disease
Health status indicators
Digital
State and nutrition
Nutrition and state
Food policy
Nutrition policy
Obesity
Hospices
Sanitation services
Delivery of Healthcare
Medical and Healthcare industry
Health products
Medicine
Universal Health Coverage
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