Beyond Financial Protection: A Comprehensive Framework for Value for Money in Health Insurance for Informal Sector Populations
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Keywords
Health insurance; informal sector; Trust; social capital; financial protection; community participation; health financing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
- H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IUE-2025-05-19 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-SEA-2025-05-19 (South East Asia)
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