The impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure and impoverishment: a case study of South Africa
Karine Lamiraud, Frikkie Booysen and Xenia Scheil-Adlung
ESS paper, no. 23, ILO
2005
Abstract
health insurance scope of coverage takeup social implication economic implication access to care poverty social security financing household income South Africa
Taking all forms of statutory and non-statutory schemes into account, models the impact of membership on utilization as well as the consequences of out-of-pocket payments for impoverishment.