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Innovations in Health Care Financing : Proceedings of a World Bank Conference, March 10-11, 1997 World Bank Discussion Papers ; 365
author
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Schieber, George.
publisher
:
World Bank
isbn10 | asin
:
0821339648
print isbn13
:
9780821339640
ebook isbn13
:
9780585239071
language
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English
subject
Medical care--Developing countries--Finance--Congresses.
publication date
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1997
lcc
:
RA410.55.D48I55 1997eb
ddc
:
338.4/33621/091724
subject
:
Medical care--Developing countries--Finance--Congresses.
Page i
WORLD BANK DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 365
Innovations in Health Care Financing
Proceedings of a World Bank Conference, March 10-11, 1997
Edited by George J. Schieber
The World Bank Washington, D.C.
Page ii
Copyright 1997 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/THE WORLD BANK 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20433, U.S.A.
All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing July 1997
Discussion Papers present results of country analysis or research that are circulated to encourage discussion and comment within the development community. To present these results with the least possible delay, the typescript of this paper has not been prepared in accordance with the procedures appropriate to formal printed texts, and the World Bank accepts no responsibility for errors. Some sources cited in this paper may be informal documents that are not readily available.
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ISSN: 0259-210X
George J. Schieber is health sector leader in the World Bank's Middle East and North Africa Region.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Innovations in health care financing: proceedings of a World Bank conference, March 10-11, 1997 / edited by George Schieber. p. cm. (World Bank discussion paper; ISSN 0259-210X; 365) ISBN 0-8213-3964-8 1. Medical careDeveloping countriesFinance Congresses I. Schieber, George. II. World Bank Conference on Innovations in Health Care Financing (1997: Washington, D.C.) III. Series: World Bank discussion papers; 365. RA410.55.D48I55 1997 338.4'33621'091724dc21 97-17183 CIP
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Contents
Foreword
v
Acknowledgments
vi
Abstract
vii
A Curmudgeon's Guide to Financing Health Care in Developing Countries
George Schieber and Akiko Maeda
1
Government Financing of Health Care
Bengt Jnsson and Philip Musgrove
39
From Beveridge to Bismarck: Health Finance in the Russian Federation
Igor Sheiman
65
Private Insurance: Principles and Practice
Deborah J. Chollet and Maureen Lewis
77
Private Health Insurance in Egypt
Nadwa Rafeh
115
Strategies for Pricing Publicly Provided Health Services
Paul J. Gertler and Jeffrey S. Hammer
127
Cost Recovery Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Joseph Wang'ombe
155
Rural Risk-Sharing Strategies
Andrew Creese and Sara Bennett
163
Rural Health Care Financing in Thailand
Sirilaksana Khoman
183
Page iv
Market-Based Reform of U.S. Health Care Financing and Delivery: Managed Care and Managed Competition
Alain C. Enthoven
195
Managed Care and Managed Competition in Latin America and the Caribbean
Andr Cezar Medici, Juan Luis Londoo, Oswaldo Coelho, and Helen Saxenian
215
Medical Savings Accounts for Developing Countries
Len M. Nichols, Nicholas Prescott, and Kai Hong Phua
233
Medical Savings Accounts and Health Care Financing in Singapore
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