Health insurance / / edited by Aida Isabel Tavares.

• TeilnehmendeR: Tavares, Aida Isabel,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : IntechOpen,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 pages) :; illustrations

Health insurance is the mechanism used to cover medical expenses for illness, injuries, and other health conditions. There are a variety of health insurance systems in the world. A major challenge for low- and middle-income countries is the provision of universal health coverage (UHC), which is the United Nations' Sustainability Development Goal Target 3.8.This book examines issues of providing UHC in different health systems around the world, with examples from the Philippines, Portugal, Nigeria, Slovenia, and the United States.

Table of Contents

1. Toward Universal Health Coverage: The Role of Health Insurance System -- 2. The Advantage of Single-Payer National Insurance -- 3. Health Insurance for Economically Disadvantaged People in LMICs: What are the Best Options? -- 4. National Health Insurance, the Informal Sector, and Elements of a New Social Contract in the 2019 UHC Act of the Philippines -- 5. An Assessment of the Effect National Health Insurance Scheme Capitation Payment to the Healthcare Facilities in Yobe State -- 6. Complementary Health Insurance in Slovenia -- 7. Voluntary Private Health Insurance Demand by Older People in a National Health Service, the Case of Portugal -- 8. Health Insurance in the United States: Failure of Private and Multi-Payer Financing -- 9. Value-Based Contracting in Health Care -- 10. Socio-Economic Considerations of Universal Health Coverage: Focus on the Concept of Health Care Value and Medical Treatment Price.