Ethiopia Health Extension Program: An Institutionalized Community Approach for Universal Health Coverage

by Chala Tesfaye Chekagn, Gandham N V Romana, Huihui Wang, et al.

As a low-income country, Ethiopia has made impressive progress in improving health outcomes. This report examines how Ethiopia's Health Extension Program (HEP) has contributed to the country's move toward Univeral Health Coverage (UHC), and to shed light on how other countries may learn from Ethiopia's experiences of HEP when designing their own path to UHC. HEP is one of the government's UHC strategies introduced in a context of limited resources...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464808155
• ISBN13: 9781464808159
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"