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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
©2012.
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Colección: | Investment climate in health series.
World Bank working paper ; no. 219. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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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 ; |