Rural Health Cooperatives

Health insurance purchasing cooperatives.

S mall employers have particular disadvantages as purchasers of health insurance.They often are not well informed about the insurance options available to them because, unlike large employers, they do not have specialized staff to manage their employee benefit programs. Small business owners, who usually make decisions about insurance for their firms, typically have little time or expertise to ...

Rural Public Libraries in Multitype Library Cooperatives

hSTRACT COOPERATION AMONG LIBRARIES is a practice that supports information service to patrons of all libraries. This article will examine the historical overview of cooperative efforts, the roles identified for the cooperative library organizations and members of the organizations, and the services associated with these organizations. It will also examine the contributions that rural libraries...

Health data cooperatives - citizen empowerment.

INTRODUCTION This article is part of a Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on Health Record Banking. BACKGROUND Healthcare is often ineffective and costs are steadily rising. This is in a large part due to the inaccessibility of medical and health data stored in multiple silos. Furthermore, in most cases molecular differences between individuals that result in different suscepti...

Financial Cooperatives: A ”market solution” to SME and rural ...nancing

In this paper we perform a formal analysis of the objective function of a ...nancial cooperative (FC) to investigate to which extent they may be suited to ...nance SME under conditions of economic and ...nancial reforms in developing countries. We also perform a less formal analysis on the nature and role of the ”common bond” in the decision making process by FC. The formal model allows us to s...

Health care cooperatives: innovations for older people.