TY - JOUR
T1 - Financing health insurance in Asia Pacific countries
AU - Sidorenko, Alexandra A.
AU - Butler, James R.G.
PY - 2007/5
Y1 - 2007/5
N2 - The paper discusses models of health insurance, including compulsory (social) health insurance, voluntary insurance, and community-based financing schemes. It illustrates the features of these models in terms of coverage, funding, sustainability, payment mechanisms, public-private mix, risk protection, and cost-containment properties, and outlines some emerging challenges to health financing arrangements. Health financing systems used in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, ASEAN and China are discussed, and implications are drawn for the developing countries in the Asia Pacific contemplating health insurance reform.
AB - The paper discusses models of health insurance, including compulsory (social) health insurance, voluntary insurance, and community-based financing schemes. It illustrates the features of these models in terms of coverage, funding, sustainability, payment mechanisms, public-private mix, risk protection, and cost-containment properties, and outlines some emerging challenges to health financing arrangements. Health financing systems used in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, ASEAN and China are discussed, and implications are drawn for the developing countries in the Asia Pacific contemplating health insurance reform.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34247137575&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-8411.2007.00191.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-8411.2007.00191.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0818-9935
VL - 21
SP - 34
EP - 54
JO - Asian-Pacific Economic Literature
JF - Asian-Pacific Economic Literature
IS - 1
ER -