Financing health services through user fees and insurance : case studies from sub-Saharan Africa (English)

The case studies in this volume focus on user fees and self-financing health insurance as a means of contributing to improved health sector efficiency, equity, and sustainable financing. The challenge facing policy-makers is how to tap resources that African households have, ensuring that people receive good value for money. User fees are emphasized as a form of cost-sharing because private, out-of-pocket expenditures for health account for nearly...

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Shaw, R. Paul;

Ainsworth, Martha [editors];
Document Date
1996/01/31
Document Type
Publication
Report Number
WDP294
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of, Lesotho, Guinea-Bissau,
Region
Western and Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Financing health services through user fees and insurance : case studies from sub-Saharan Africa
Keywords
revenue from user charges

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Shaw, R. Paul; Ainsworth, Martha [editors].

Financing health services through user fees and insurance : case studies from sub-Saharan Africa (English). World Bank discussion papers|no. WDP 294. Africa Technical Department series Washington, D.C. : The World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/790971468749767986

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