Health Insurance for the Poor : Initial Impacts of Vietnam's Health Care Fund for the Poor
Vietnam's Health Care Fund for the
Poor (HCFP) uses government revenues to finance health care
for the poor, ethnic minorities living in selected
mountainous provinces designated as difficult, and all
households living in communes officially designated as
highly disadvantaged. The program, which started in 2003,
did not as of 2004 include all these groups, but those who
were included (about 15 percent of the population) were
disproportionately poor. Estimates of the program's
impact-obtained using single differences and propensity
score matching on a trimmed sample-suggest that HCFP has
substantially increased service utilization, especially
in-patient care, and has reduced the risk of catastrophic
spending. It has not, however, reduced average out-of-pocket
spending, and appears to have had negligible impacts on
utilization among the poorest decile.
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Wagstaff, Adam |
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2007-02
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| Subjects: | CLINICS,
COMMUNES,
DRESSINGS,
ESSENTIAL DRUGS,
FINANCIAL PROTECTION,
FREE CARE,
HEALTH CARE,
HEALTH CARE FINANCE,
HEALTH CENTERS,
HEALTH FACILITIES,
HEALTH INSURANCE,
HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM,
HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME,
HEALTH SERVICES,
HEALTH SPENDING,
HOMES,
HOSPITALS,
HOUSEHOLD INCOME,
HOUSEHOLDS,
HOUSING,
INCOME DISTRIBUTION,
INCOME GROUPS,
INFORMAL PAYMENTS,
INFORMAL SECTOR,
INPATIENT CARE,
INSURANCE COVERAGE,
MEDICAL EQUIPMENT,
MEDICINES,
NATIONAL HEALTH,
OUTPATIENT CARE,
PATIENTS,
PHARMACIES,
POCKET PAYMENTS,
POCKET PAYMENTS FOR HEALTH CARE,
POLICY RESEARCH,
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS,
PRIVATE SECTOR,
PROBABILITY,
PUBLIC HOSPITALS,
RESEARCH PROGRAM,
SOCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE,
SOCIAL SECURITY,
URBAN AREAS,
VISITS,
WORKERS, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/02/7368143/health-insurance-poor-initial-impacts-vietnams-health-care-fund-poor
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7170
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