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Stakeholder-Centric Exploration of Health Insurance Subscription

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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Health insurance policy; Push and pull factors of insurance policy subscription; Social policy intervention; Theory of planned behavior

Definition

Health insurance policy refers to a safety policy intervention measure devised to provide individuals and households from unexpected catastrophic health expenditures.

Introduction

Given the global commitment to improving healthcare and well-being for all people regardless of race, religion, income, and geographical location (Kizito et al. 2012), issues of healthcare have in recent times become not only a sensitive but also an all-consuming discourse that has preoccupied the attention of stakeholders across both government and nongovernment divides. Essentially, healthcare is acknowledged as a conduit for advancing human development (Ferrer et al. 2005; Arkorful et al. 2018). At the heart of the global effort to advancing healthcare while tackling the nagging issue of inequality (a phenomenon that has perennially dealt debilitating...

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  1. Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China

    Vincent Ekow Arkorful

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    Ali Farazmand

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Arkorful, V.E. (2022). Stakeholder-Centric Exploration of Health Insurance Subscription. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66252-3_4251

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