Achieving Universal Health Coverage through Voluntary Insurance : What Can We Learn from the Experience of Lao PDR?
The Government of Lao Peoples’ Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has embarked on a path to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) through implementation of four risk-protection schemes. One of these schemes is community-based health insurance (CBHI) – a voluntary scheme that targets roughly half the po...
Main Authors: | Alkenbrack, Sarah, Jacobs, Bart, Lindelow, Magnus |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | en_US |
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BioMed Central
2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23156 |
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