Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/99991 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ZEF Working Paper Series No. 134
Publisher: 
University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn
Abstract: 
Recently, many emerging countries have established subsidized health insurance schemes to provide financial protection and support access to health care to poor households. The challenge to ensure the long term sustainability of such schemes is huge. In this paper, the impact of the health environment on the long term sustainability of a health insurance is explored, focusing on water and sanitation. India offers an interesting case to explore this question. Indeed, since 2008 India launched a fully subsidized health insurance Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) in a context where 56% of its population does not have access to safe sanitation and 8% do not have access to safe water (JMP, 2012). A framework is proposed linking water supply and sanitation; health status of the insured population; health insurance and the productivity of households. Next, based on a literature review, the outcomes of investments in water and sanitation and health insurance are reviewed and the potential synergies and trade-offs of combing these investments are explored. In a last section, the case of India is analysed in detail, with international comparisons and further research lines are proposed.
Subjects: 
Health insurance
financial sustainability
water and sanitation
India
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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