Health Insurance Systems and Access to Medicines - Case Studies from: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and the United States of America: CHAPTER 2: Typology of Health Insurance Systems: 2- Health Insurance Components

Health Insurance Systems and Access to Medicines - Case Studies from: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and the United States of America
(2002; 96 pages) [Spanish]

Table des matières

PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: Economics and Medicines Policy
	1- Health Care from an Economic and Political Perspective
	2- General Overview of Drug Markets and Policies
	3- Characteristics of the Pharmaceutical Market and its Regulation
CHAPTER 2: Typology of Health Insurance Systems
	1- Health Systems and Health Insurance
		1.1. Ideal Types of Health Systems
		1.2. Selected Cases and Ideal Types of Systems
	2- Health Insurance Components
		2.1. Management Model
		2.2. Financing Model
		2.3. Care Model
		2.4. System Components in the Cases Selected
CHAPTER 3: Health Insurance and Medicines
	Institution and Country
	1- Social Assistance Schemes
	2- Decentralized Social Security Scheme
	3- Centralized Social Insurance
	4- Universal Social Security Scheme
	5- Private Insurance
CHAPTER 4: Conclusions and Recommendations
	1 - National Drug Policy³⁹
	2- Regulation
	3- Demand
	4- Importance of Guaranteed Quality
	5- Use
BIBLIOGRAPHY

2- Health Insurance Components

All health systems may be thought of as the articulation to be based on three elements. (Tobar, 1998): A) management model, B) financing model, C) care model. Figure 1 is a diagram showing the components of any health system:

Figure 1: Health System Components