Health Insurance Handbook: How to Make It Work Volume 219

by Kimberly Switlick, Hong Wang, Christine Ortiz

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821389823
• ISBN13: 9780821389829
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"