Background Low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) have difficulties achieving
universal financial protection, which is primordial for universal health coverage. A promising …

The contingent valuation method (CVM) is a survey-based, hypothetical and direct method
to determine monetary valuations of effects of health technologies. This comprehensive …

For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured
billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, these drugs no longer work against the …

Background Prepayments and risk pooling through social health insurance has been
advocated by international development organizations. Social health insurance is seen as a …

Introduction Reliance on out-of-pocket payment for healthcare may lead poor households to
undertake catastrophic health expenditure, and risk-pooling mechanisms have been …

Background Past attempts to estimate the cost of migration were limited to education costs
only and did not include the lost returns from investment. The objectives of this study were:(i) …

This study, conducted in India in 2005, provides evidence on Willingness to pay (WTP),
gathered through a unidirectional (descending) bidding game among 3024 households …

OBJECTIVES: This study aims to identify the reasons why enrolled people decide not to
renew their membership in following years. METHODS: Household survey is used to collect …

Background One of the key functions of health insurance is to provide financial protection
against high costs of health care, yet evidence of such protection from develo** countries …

Objective Access to healthcare is mostly contingent on out-of-pocket spending (OOPS) by
health seekers, particularly in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). This would require …