Expanding health care services for poor populations in developing countries: Exploring India’s RSBY national health insurance programme for low-income groups

Thesis

Health is deemed central to a nation’s development. Accordingly, health care reform and expansion are key policy priorities in developing countries. Many such nations are now testing various methods of funding and delivering health care to local disadvantaged populations. Similarly, India launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) national health insurance programme for low-income groups in 2008. The RSBY intends preventing catastrophic health-related expenditure by improving recip...

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Authors: Virk, A

• Publication date: 2013
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: low and middle income countries; social health insurance; health policy; social policy
• Subjects: Human development; Public policy; Evaluation of social policies,programmes and practice; Health and health policy