Health insurance coverage in low-income and middle-income countries: progress made to date and related changes in private and public health expenditure.
Brady HooleyDoris Osei AfriyieGünther FinkFabrizio TediosiPublished in: BMJ global health (2022)
These findings indicate that LMICs continue to have low levels of health insurance coverage and that health insurance may not necessarily reduce household health expenditure. However, the lack of regular estimates of health insurance coverage in LMICs does not allow us to draw solid conclusions on the relationship between health insurance coverage and health expenditure.