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Health insurance handbook : how to make it work /

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 financia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: World Bank
Otros Autores: Wang, Hong, MD
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2012.
Colección:Investment climate in health series.
World Bank working paper ; no. 219.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 of t.
Notas:Revised edition of: Africa health insurance handbook / Hong Wang [and others]. 2010.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 119 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780821389539
082138953X
0821389823
9780821389829
6613491837
9786613491831
1283491834
9781283491839
ISSN:1726-5878 ;