Making health insurance work for the poor: learning from the Self-Employed Women's Association's (SEWA) community-based health insurance scheme in India.

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Published in Soc Sci Med on July 28, 2005

Authors

M Kent Ranson1, Tara Sinha, Mirai Chatterjee, Akash Acharya, Ami Bhavsar, Saul S Morris, Anne J Mills

Author Affiliations

1: Health Economics and Financing Programme, Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT London, UK. kent.ranson@lshtm.ac.uk

Associated clinical trials:

Experimental Study to Assess Interventions Aimed at Improving the Equity Impact of Community-Based Health Insurance | NCT00421629

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