Incentives in Community-based Health Insurance Schemes

The author presents a promising tool to increase the coverage rate of community-based health insurance schemes (CBHI) and access to medical care for poor population groups in developing countries. He addresses a key problem of CBHI: Authorities cannot sanction non-members and membership cannot be enforced. Therefore, it is proposed to award membership by offering incentives such as raffle participation for joining a CBHI. This approach attracts new members and can be a motivation to continue membership payments of healthy insurance members. The results of an ex-ante demand analysis conducted in the Philippines are promising. More than 80 % of the respondents would like to participate in the raffle and would even agree to higher premium payments covering additional costs of the raffle.

List of contents

Contents: Incentives in Social Health Insurance - Rural Risk Management - Linking the Provision of Public Goods with Lotteries - Raffle Model - Philippines.

About the author

The Author: F. Markus Kaiser studied Health Sciences and Political Science in Kiel, Bielefeld and Oslo. He currently works for the AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, Tainan (Taiwan) as a Grant Development Coordinator.

Product details

• Authors: F. Markus Kaiser
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9783631526873
• ISBN: 978-3-631-52687-3
• No. of pages: 110
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 6 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 160 g
• Series: Development Economics and Policy; Development Economics and Policy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics