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Financial protection for the poor in Colombia: the effects of a subsidized health insurance scheme
| dc.creator | Castaño Yepez, Ramón Abel | |
| dc.creator | Zambrano, Andrés | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-06T13:24:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-10-06T13:24:34Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2017 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Financial protection is one of the objectives of health systems, which protects poor households from falling into poverty as a result of health care related expenses. Expanding prepayment schemes to the poor is difficult in developing countries because labor is largely informal. Providing health care free-at-point-of-service does not adequately target spending on the poorest, but occupation- or community-based schemes have also inherent limitations to achieve universal coverage. Colombia adopted a government-subsidized health insurance scheme (SHI) strategy. The political debate about increasing SHI enrollment needs evidence about the effectiveness of this scheme regarding financial protection. This study runs a four-part model to estimate the effect of SHI on out-of-pocket expenses by the poor that are currently uninsured, if they were enrolled in the SHI. The results show a 43% and 50% reduction in expenses at Bogotá and national level respectively, which confirms the effectiveness of SHI as a financial protection tool. | eng |
| dc.format.extent | [26 páginas] | spa |
| dc.format.medium | Recurso electrónico | spa |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.format.tipo | Documento | spa |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.48713/10336_10976 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/10976 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Universidad del Rosario | spa |
| dc.publisher.department | Facultad de Economía | spa |
| dc.relation.citationIssue | No. 12 | |
| dc.relation.citationTitle | Serie Documentos de trabajo. Economía | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Serie documentos de trabajo. No 12 (marzo 2007) | spa |
| dc.relation.uri | https://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000092/002723.html | |
| dc.rights.accesRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.rights.acceso | Abierto (Texto completo) | spa |
| dc.rights.cc | Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Colombia | spa |
| dc.source.instname | instname:Universidad del Rosario | spa |
| dc.source.instname | instname:Universidad del Rosario | spa |
| dc.source.reponame | reponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocUR | spa |
| dc.subject.ddc | Problemas & servicios de bienestar social | |
| dc.subject.keyword | Financial protection | eng |
| dc.subject.keyword | subsidized insurance | eng |
| dc.subject.keyword | out-of-pocket expenses | eng |
| dc.subject.keyword | Colombia | eng |
| dc.subject.lemb | Administración de servicios de salud | spa |
| dc.subject.lemb | Pobreza::Aspectos Sociales | spa |
| dc.subject.lemb | Salud pública | spa |
| dc.subject.lemb | Análisis financiero::Aspectos Sociales | spa |
| dc.subject.lemb | Seguridad social | spa |
| dc.title | Financial protection for the poor in Colombia: the effects of a subsidized health insurance scheme | spa |
| dc.type | workingPaper | eng |
| dc.type.hasVersion | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion | |
| dc.type.spa | Documento de trabajo | spa |
