Extending health care coverage: Potential linkages between statutory social security and community-based social protection |
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| Authors: | Jens Schremmer Alain Coheur Christian Jacquier Valérie Schmitt-Diabaté |
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| Institution: | International Social Security Association;;National Union of Socialist Mutual Benefit Societies, Belgium;and;International Labour Office |
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| Abstract: | Abstract The extension of social health protection in developing countries is widely recognized as a priority. Various financing and institutional methods can be used in pursuing this objective, but none of them can achieve universal coverage in the short term. Based on an analysis of the respective strengths and weaknesses of social health insurance and community-based health care schemes, this article demonstrates the high potential of coverage extension strategies that use a pluralistic institutional approach to establish linkages and exploit complementarities optimally. A typology of potential linkages among different methods is presented and their value added illustrated using country examples. |
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| Keywords: | supply of health care health insurance gaps in coverage social security administration social security planning developing countries |
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