Community-based health insurance in developing countries: a study of its contribution to the performance of health financing systems — Carrin 2005

We looked at how community-based health insurance (CHI) might affect how well health funding systems function. The three subfunctions of health funding described in the World Health Report 2000—revenue collection, resource pooling, and service procurement—are used to analyze the international empirical data. The data suggests that CHI has only made modest progress in each of these subfunctions to date, even though many CHI schemes are still in their infancy and will need more time to mature. We provide a summary of the key variables affecting CHI's performance in these financing subfunctions and explore a number of recommendations to improve CHI performance. The proposals deal with the availability and desire for healthcare in the neighborhood.

Carrin, G., Waelkens, M.-P., & Criel, B. (2005). Community-based health insurance in developing countries: a study of its contribution to the performance of health financing systems. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 10(8), 799–811. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01455.x