Measuring the impact of Voluntary Health Insurance on out of pocket costs and socioeconomic-related inequality : methodological challenges and potential solutions with an application to Vietnam

Aims: This study has three aims: 1) to measure the impact of the Vietnamese Voluntary Health Insurance (VHI) programme on out-of-pocket (OOP) costs of health care after correcting for care-seeking and insurance-seeking self-selection biases; 2) to measure the effect of the VHI programme on socioecon...

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Main Author: Ali, Shehzad Inayat
Other Authors: Cookson, Richard
Published: University of York 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.556677