Adverse selection in a community-based health insurance scheme in rural Africa: implications for introducing targeted subsidies.

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Published in BMC Health Serv Res on June 28, 2012

Authors

Divya Parmar1, Aurélia Souares, Manuela de Allegri, Germain Savadogo, Rainer Sauerborn

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Public Health, INF 324, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany. D.Parmar1@lse.ac.uk

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