Does community health insurance increase access to health care for the poor? Evidence from India

This study would not have been possible, but for the voluntary work of 106 village workers who followed up their designated families on a regular basis. Also many thanks to the research assistants, especially Easwaran who braved rain, flooded rivers and wild animals to interview the patients. A special thanks to Dr Bharat Gadhvi for supervising the study and to Mr S. Manoharan for computerisation of the data. And finally, the authors acknowledge with gratitude the financial support of the Belgian government (Directorate General of Development Cooperation) and the Sir Ratan Tata Trust Mumbai for funding this research.