The impact of health insurance programs for children: Evidence from Vietnam

Artikel

This study assesses the impact of children's health insurance programs on health care utilization and health care expenditures of children from 6 to 14 years old in Vietnam using four rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys from 2006 to 2012. We find a positive effect of both student and free health insurance programs on the number of health care visits. This positive impact tends to increase over time, and the impact of the free health insurance program is larger than the impact of the student health insurance program. Regarding out-of-pocket health expenditures per visit, we find a reducing effect on this outcome of the free health insurance program but not the student health insurance program.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Health Economics Review ; ISSN: 2191-1991 ; Volume: 6 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 34 ; Pages: 1-15 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health: General ; Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies ; Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
• Thema: Child health insurance ; Impact evaluation ; Health care utilization ; Out-of-pocket expenditures ; Vietnam

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Cuong Viet Nguyen
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Springer
• (wo): Heidelberg
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1186/s13561-016-0111-9
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/175601
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ