Community-based health insurance and social protection (English)

Health risks pose a grave threat to lives and livelihoods, especially those of the poor. Health shocks add additional expenditures to the burden of the poor precisely when they can least afford it. Even minor health shocks can have a major impact on a poor person's ability to work, and hence on their earning capacity. In some countries, public health care systems provide minimal services and few governments are able to meet all healthcare needs. Oftentimes...
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Tabor,Steven R..

Community-based health insurance and social protection (English). No. 23|Social safety nets primer notes Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/907951468158697703

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