Health Insurance and Other Risk-Coping Strategies in Uganda: The Case of Microcare Insurance Ltd.

被引：36

作者：

Dekker, Marleen ^{[1
]}

Wilms, Annegien ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] African Studies Ctr, Leiden, Netherlands

[2] Netherlands Author Financial Markets, Amsterdam, Netherlands

来源：

WORLD DEVELOPMENT | 2010年 / 38卷 / 03期

关键词：

Uganda; Sub-Sahara Africa; health insurance; micro-insurance; poverty risk-coping strategies; CARE; EXPENDITURES; VILLAGES; IMPACT; POOR;

D O I：

10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.09.004

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

To reduce the burden of health expienditures in developing countries, healhty-insurance schemes have become popular and now feature prominently in poverty-reduction strategies. There is however limited empirical evidence on the effect of such schemes on the livelihoods of clients especially regarding household strategies to finance medical expenditures This paper explores the relationship between health insurance and other risk-coping strategies used to finance medical expenditures in Uganda Insurance is associated with a lower frequency of asset sales but not with lower meidences of borrowing The amount of money borrowed or generated through the sales of assets is lower for insured households (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved

引用

页码：369 / 378

页数：10

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