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

Cuong Nguyen

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.

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Year of publication:	Dezember 2016
Authors:	Cuong Viet Nguyen
Published in:	Health economics review. - Heidelberg : Springer, ISSN 2191-1991, ZDB-ID 2634483-X. - Vol. 6.2016, 34, p. 1-15
Subject:	Child health insurance \| Impact evaluation \| Health care utilization \| Out-of-pocket expenditures \| Vietnam \| Viet Nam \| Kinder \| Children \| Krankenversicherung \| Health insurance \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| Gesundheitsversorgung \| Health care

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1186/s13561-016-0111-9 [DOI] hdl:10419/175601 [Handle]
Classification:	I10 - Health. General ; G22 - Insurance; Insurance Companies ; H43 - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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