UID:
almafu_9958102913302883
Format:
pages ;
,
cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786613491831
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9781283491839
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1283491834
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9780821389539
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082138953X
Series Statement:
Investment climate in health series no. 219
Uniform Title:
Africa health insurance handbook.
Content:
Many countries that subscribe to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have committed to ensuring access to basic health services for their citizens. Health insurance has been considered and promoted as the major financing mechanism to improve access to health services, as well to provide financial risk protection. In Africa, several countries have already spent scarce time, money, and effort on health insurance initiatives. Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania are just a few of them. However, many of these schemes, both public and private, cover only a small proportion...
Note:
Rev. ed. of: Africa health insurance handbook / Hong Wang ... [et al.]. 2010.
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Design element 1 : feasibility of health insurance -- Design element 2 : choice of financing mechanisms -- Design element 3 : population coverage -- Design element 4 : benefits packages and cost containment -- Design element 5 : engagement, selection, and payment of health care providers -- Design element 6 : organizational structure -- Design element 7 : operationalizing health insurance -- Design element 8 : monitoring and evaluation of health insurance schemes.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821389829
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0821389823
Language:
English
URL:
http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-8982-9
