TY - BOOK ID - 11944876 TI - Governing mandatory health insurance : learning from experience AU - Savedoff, William D. AU - Gottret, Pablo E. AU - World Bank. PY - 2008 SN - 0821375482 9786611787479 1281787477 0821375490 PB - Washington, DC : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Health insurance -- Cross-cultural studies. KW - Health insurance. KW - Insurance, Health -- Europe. KW - Insurance, Health -- Latin America. KW - Health insurance KW - Health Services Administration KW - Insurance KW - Social Control, Formal KW - Geographic Locations KW - Americas KW - Health Planning KW - Health Care Economics and Organizations KW - Geographicals KW - Financing, Organized KW - Sociology KW - Health Care KW - Economics KW - Social Sciences KW - Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena KW - National Health Programs KW - Europe KW - Insurance, Health KW - Organization and Administration KW - Mandatory Programs KW - Latin America KW - Public Health KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Medical Care Plans KW - Health plans, Prepaid KW - Medical care, Prepaid KW - Medical insurance KW - Prepaid health plans KW - Prepaid medical care KW - Sickness insurance KW - Ambulance service KW - Health care reform KW - Home care services KW - Hospitals KW - Medically uninsured persons KW - Surgical clinics KW - Prospective payment KW - Emergency services KW - Outpatient services KW - Rehabilitation services UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11944876 AB - Although mandatory health insurance programs are being proposed or expanded in many developing countries, relatively little attention has been given to how these programs are governed. The available literature focuses almost exclusively on operational features that are important but will necessarily change over time-such as eligibility, benefit packages, and premiums. Governing Mandatory Health Insurance instead looks at the institutional and political forces that affect the behavior of such programs within their social and historical contexts and how five dimensions of governance-coherent dec ER -