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Table 1 Key institutional design aspects and their features

From: Pooling arrangements in health financing systems: a proposed classification

Nature of pooling

Structure of pooling

Voluntary versus compulsory or automatic coverage

Single versus multiple pools

within multiple pools:

- territorially distinct versus territorially overlapping pools in terms of service and population coverage

- competing versus non-competing

- population segmentation versus no population segmentation

  1. Source: compiled by authors