Article
Illness and Wage Loss: Longitudinal Evidence from India (and Implications for the Universal Health Coverage Agenda)
2021-11-09
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<h4>Background: </h4> A key aim of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is to protect individuals and households against the financial risk of illness. Large-scale health insurance expansions are therefore a central focus of the UHC agenda. Importantly, however, health insurance does not protect against a key dimension of financial risk associated with illness: forgone wage income (due to short-term disability). In thi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 930c82b5-e331-5696-86f1-3fd6de4fd146
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.11.04.21265892
