Product Description: Financial protection against the cost of illness and inclusion of vulnerable groups – will require better mobilization and use of private means. Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in mobilizing additional resources to the health sector and protecting against the catastrophic cost of illness in some countries...read more

Product Description: Risk sharing is a cornerstone of modern economies. It is valuable to risk-averse consumers and essential for investment and entrepreneurs. The standard economic model of risk exchange predicts that competition in insurance markets will result in all individual risks being insured--that all diversifiable risks in the economy will be covered through mutual risk-sharing arrangements--but in practice this is not the case...read more

Product Description: Both direct and indirect health-related expenditures represent a substantial investment by employers today. This volume explains why health-related expenses are worth greater managerial attention, and presents expense management strategies that have proven most effective in corporate setting...read more