TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw, R.P. (ed.)|Ainsworth, M. (ed.)
TI  - Financing health services through user fees and insurance: case studies from Sub-Saharan Africa
SN  - 0-8213-3396-8
AV  - W 74 .S5 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - World Bank
KW  - Health|Health Services|Health Expenditures|Delivery of Health Care|Insurance
N1  - Presents studies that reveal the prospects and the potential for user fees and self-financing health insurance not just as a way of raising more money, but as tools that can help improve efficiency, equity, sustainability and private sector participation in national health systems. User fees are emphasised as a form of cost-sharing because private, out-of-pocket expenditures for health account for nearly one-half of total health expenditures in Africa. Presents country experiences that give the benefits to be gained by carefully designed user-charge policies. Emphasises self-financing health insurance, which is seen to offer Sub-Saharan Africa opportunities to develop better health care systems
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