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  1. Microinsurance helps informal workers recover from shocks and build financial resilience.

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr David Mark Dror

  2. Rethinking Health Insurance: Inclusive, Collaborative, and Fair Alternatives to Traditional Models

    Article • November 2023, IntechOpen

    Dr David Mark Dror

  3. The reasons that led to the formulation of microinsurance are still valid, 20 years on

    Article • International Social Security Review, October 2019, Wiley

    Dr David Mark Dror

  4. Editorial for the special issue 2019 on microinsurance

    Article • The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr David Mark Dror

  5. A minor correction to the article

    Article • The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr David Mark Dror

  6. A results-based analysis of the impact of community-based health insurance

    Article • December 2018, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr David Mark Dror

  7. Why People Join Health Insurance Together: Lessons from Rural India

    Article • Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, September 2018, Dove Medical Press

    Dr David Mark Dror

  8. How much money is needed for financially viable health microinsurance in low-income settings?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr David Mark Dror

  9. The most comprehensive systematic review and meta analysis on voluntary uptake of CBHI membership

    Article • PLOS One, August 2016, PLOS

    Dr David Mark Dror, Denny John

  10. Systematic Review of Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance in Low and Middle Income Countries

    Article • PLOS One, June 2016, PLOS

    Dr David Mark Dror

  11. Guest Editorial

    Article • The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice, March 2016, Nature

    Dr David Mark Dror

  12. “Climate Cost of Cultivation”: A New Crop Index Method to Quantify Farmers’ Cost of Climate Change Exemplified in Rural India

    Article • The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice, March 2016, Nature

    Dr David Mark Dror

  13. How Community Health Insurance in Rural India Helps People Avoid Debt and Get Better Healthcare

    Article • International Journal of Microbiology Research, January 2016, Medknow

    Dr David Mark Dror

  14. Healthcare seeking behaviour among self-help group households in Rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr David Mark Dror

  15. Building awareness to health insurance among the target population of community-based health insurance schemes in rural India

    Article • Tropical Medicine & International Health, May 2015, Wiley

    Dr David Mark Dror

  16. Can climate change cause groundwater scarcity? An estimate for Bihar

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, February 2015, Wiley

    Dr David Mark Dror

  17. Mobilizing community-based health insurance to enhance awareness & prevention of airborne, vector-borne & waterborne diseases in rural India

    Article • International Journal of Microbiology Research, January 2015, Medknow

    Dr David Mark Dror

  18. consensus-building within communities on their health microinsurance

    Article • Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, August 2014, Dove Medical Press

    Dr David Mark Dror

  19. The Demand for (Micro) Health Insurance in the Informal Sector

    Article • The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice, July 2014, Nature

    Dr David Mark Dror

  20. Guest Editorial

    Article • The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice, April 2014, Nature

    Dr David Mark Dror

  21. Implementing a Participatory Model of Micro Health Insurance among Rural Poor with Evidence from Nepal

    Article • The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr David Mark Dror, Denny John

  22. A Model to Estimate the Impact of Thresholds and Caps on Coverage Levels in Community-Based Health Insurance Schemes in Low-Income Countries

    Article • Health, January 2014, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Dr David Mark Dror

  23. Health Microinsurance Programs in Developing Countries

    Article • January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr David Mark Dror

  24. What is Microinsurance?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr David Mark Dror

  25. Enrolment in community-based health insurance schemes in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India

    Article • Health Policy and Planning, October 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr David Mark Dror

  26. The Importance of Using Food and Nutrient Intake Data to Identify Appropriate Vehicles and Estimate Potential Benefits of Food Fortification in Uganda

    Article • Food and Nutrition Bulletin, June 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr David Mark Dror

  27. Estimating Willingness-to-Pay for health insurance among rural poor in India by reference to Engel's law

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr David Mark Dror

  28. What Factors Affect Take Up of Voluntary and Community-Based Health Insurance Programmes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? Protocol

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr David Mark Dror, Denny John

  29. Enrollment in Community Based Health Insurance Schemes in Rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr David Mark Dror

  30. Can the rural poor in India afford to treat non-communicable diseases

    Article • Tropical Medicine & International Health, September 2012, Wiley

    Dr David Mark Dror

  31. Is RSBY India′s platform to implementing universal hospital insurance?

    Article • International Journal of Microbiology Research, January 2012, Medknow

    Dr David Mark Dror

  32. Illness Mapping: a time and cost effective method to estimate healthcare data needed to establish community-based health insurance

    Article • BMC Medical Research Methodology, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr David Mark Dror

  33. Hardship financing of healthcare among rural poor in Orissa, India

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr David Mark Dror

  34. Reconciling research and implementation in micro health insurance experiments in India: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

    Article • Trials, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr David Mark Dror

  35. ′First we go to the small doctor′: First contact for curative health care sought by rural communities in Andhra Pradesh & Orissa, India

    Article • International Journal of Microbiology Research, January 2011, Medknow

    Dr David Mark Dror

  36. Financial Inclusion Opportunities for Micro Health Insurance in Nepal

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr David Mark Dror

  37. Microinsurance: Innovations In Low-Cost Health Insurance

    Article • Health Affairs, November 2009, Health Affairs

    Dr David Mark Dror

  38. Willingness to pay for health insurance among rural and poor persons: Field evidence from seven micro health insurance units in India

    Article • Health Policy, June 2007, Elsevier

    Dr David Mark Dror

  39. Health insurance benefit packages prioritized by low-income clients in India: Three criteria to estimate effectiveness of choice

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2007, Elsevier

    Dr David Mark Dror

  40. Do Micro Health Insurance Units Need Capital or Reinsurance? A Simulated Exercise to Examine Different Alternatives*

    Article • The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice, October 2006, Nature

    Dr David Mark Dror

  41. The impact of filipino micro health-insurance units on income-related equality of access to healthcare

    Article • Health Policy, August 2006, Elsevier

    Dr David Mark Dror

  42. The role of insurers and reinsurers in supporting insurance for the poor

    Article • January 2006, GSE Research Limited

    Dr David Mark Dror

  43. Field based evidence of enhanced healthcare utilization among persons insured by micro health insurance units in Philippines

    Article • Health Policy, September 2005, Elsevier

    Dr David Mark Dror

  44. Social Reinsurance

    Article • September 2002, World Bank

    Dr David Mark Dror

  45. Reforming health insurance: A question of principles?

    Article • International Social Security Review, April 2000, Wiley

    Dr David Mark Dror

  46. Micro-insurance: Extending Health Insurance to the Excluded

    Article • International Social Security Review, January 1999, Wiley

    Dr David Mark Dror

  47. The elusive quest for estimates of willingness to pay for health microinsurance

    Article • GSE Research Limited

    Dr David Mark Dror

  48. Health Care Seeking Behavior Among Self-Help Group Households in Rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Dr David Mark Dror

  49. Health Care Financing for Rural and Low-Income Populations: The Role of Communities in Resource Mobilization and Risk Sharing

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Dr David Mark Dror

  50. Healthcare Seeking Behavior Among Self-Help Group Households in Rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Dr David Mark Dror

  51. Role of Communities in Resource Mobilization and Risk Sharing: A Synthesis Report

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Dr David Mark Dror