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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
    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”
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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/11540/9229.
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    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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