Mitra, S;
Palmer, M;
Pullaro, S;
Mont, D;
Groce, N;
(2017)
Health Insurance and Children in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Review.
[Review].
Economic Record
, 93
(302)
pp. 484-500.
10.1111/1475-4932.12331.
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Abstract
We conduct the first systematic review of the impact of health insurance on children and their households in low- and middle-income countries where nine-tenths of the world's child population reside. We find only 13 studies for seven countries published between 2000 and 2014 which assess the insurance impacts for children, controlling for self-selection and heterogeneity. Nine out of 10 studies reviewed provide consistent evidence that health insurance provides financial protection. The results are more mixed for health utilisation and health outcomes. Policy-makers would benefit from additional research on whether and how health insurance benefits children.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Health Insurance and Children in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Review |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1475-4932.12331 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12331 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Economic Record published by Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd on behalf of Economic Society of Australia. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1557874 |
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