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Health insurance and access to health services, health services use, and health status in Peru

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This chapter examines how Peru's eight-year-old Integral Health Insurance (Seguro Integral de Salud, or SIS) has affected access to health services and out-of-pocket spending by its beneficiaries. We use data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), which contains two crosssectional samples, one for 2000 and another for 2004-07, with a sample spread over five years. We also use data from the National Household Survey (ENAHO), a panel collected over 2002-06.Copyright © 2010. The Brookings Institution. All rights reserved.