What is the impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure, and impoverishment?: a comparative analysis of three African countries

Recently, there is an increasing focus on social health protection via health insurance as a potential promising way to better to deal with health risks in developing countries. However, the empirical basis for a profound analysis of the effects of health insurance is still very thin. Against this b...

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Autores principales: Scheil-Adlung, Xenia, Asfaw, Abay, Booyse, Frikkie, Lamiraud, Karine, Reynaud, Emmanuel, Jütting, Johannes, Xu, Ke, Carrin, Guy, Chatterji, Somnath, Evans, David, James, Chris, Muchiri, Stephen
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Publicado: World Health Organization 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/172148
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author Scheil-Adlung, Xenia
Asfaw, Abay
Booyse, Frikkie
Lamiraud, Karine
Reynaud, Emmanuel
Jütting, Johannes
Xu, Ke
Carrin, Guy
Chatterji, Somnath
Evans, David
James, Chris
Muchiri, Stephen
author_browse Asfaw, Abay
Booyse, Frikkie
Carrin, Guy
Chatterji, Somnath
Evans, David
James, Chris
Jütting, Johannes
Lamiraud, Karine
Muchiri, Stephen
Reynaud, Emmanuel
Scheil-Adlung, Xenia
Xu, Ke
author_facet Scheil-Adlung, Xenia
Asfaw, Abay
Booyse, Frikkie
Lamiraud, Karine
Reynaud, Emmanuel
Jütting, Johannes
Xu, Ke
Carrin, Guy
Chatterji, Somnath
Evans, David
James, Chris
Muchiri, Stephen
author_sort Scheil-Adlung, Xenia
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description Recently, there is an increasing focus on social health protection via health insurance as a potential promising way to better to deal with health risks in developing countries. However, the empirical basis for a profound analysis of the effects of health insurance is still very thin. Against this background the ILO, WHO, and the OECD Development Centre sponsored by GTZ have undertaken a collaborative research project in this field. This paper summarizes the results of three individual research projects (Asfaw, 2005; Lamiraud et al., 2005; Xu et al., 2005) measuring the impact of membership in a health insurance scheme in three African countries, namely Kenya, Senegal and South Africa. The structure of the paper is as follows. The first section of this paper is briefly outlining the health care systems in Kenya, Senegal and South Africa followed by a short description of the methodology and data used. The later sections focus on empirical results and policy implications.
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spelling CGSpace1721482025-04-08T18:26:24Z What is the impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure, and impoverishment?: a comparative analysis of three African countries Scheil-Adlung, Xenia Asfaw, Abay Booyse, Frikkie Lamiraud, Karine Reynaud, Emmanuel Jütting, Johannes Xu, Ke Carrin, Guy Chatterji, Somnath Evans, David James, Chris Muchiri, Stephen health economics poverty social protection insurance Recently, there is an increasing focus on social health protection via health insurance as a potential promising way to better to deal with health risks in developing countries. However, the empirical basis for a profound analysis of the effects of health insurance is still very thin. Against this background the ILO, WHO, and the OECD Development Centre sponsored by GTZ have undertaken a collaborative research project in this field. This paper summarizes the results of three individual research projects (Asfaw, 2005; Lamiraud et al., 2005; Xu et al., 2005) measuring the impact of membership in a health insurance scheme in three African countries, namely Kenya, Senegal and South Africa. The structure of the paper is as follows. The first section of this paper is briefly outlining the health care systems in Kenya, Senegal and South Africa followed by a short description of the methodology and data used. The later sections focus on empirical results and policy implications. 2006 2025-01-29T12:59:26Z 2025-01-29T12:59:26Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/172148 en Limited Access World Health Organization Scheil-Adlung, Xenia; Asfaw, Abay; Booyse, Frikkie; Lamiraud, Karine; Reynaud, Emmanuel; Jütting, Johannes; Xu, Ke; Carrin, Guy; Chatterji, Somnath; Evans, David; James, Chris; Muchiri, Stephen. 2006. What is the impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure, and impoverishment? a comparative analysis of three African countries. EIP/HSF/DP Discussion Paper Number 2
spellingShingle health economics
poverty
social protection
insurance
Scheil-Adlung, Xenia
Asfaw, Abay
Booyse, Frikkie
Lamiraud, Karine
Reynaud, Emmanuel
Jütting, Johannes
Xu, Ke
Carrin, Guy
Chatterji, Somnath
Evans, David
James, Chris
Muchiri, Stephen
What is the impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure, and impoverishment?: a comparative analysis of three African countries
title What is the impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure, and impoverishment?: a comparative analysis of three African countries
title_full What is the impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure, and impoverishment?: a comparative analysis of three African countries
title_fullStr What is the impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure, and impoverishment?: a comparative analysis of three African countries
title_full_unstemmed What is the impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure, and impoverishment?: a comparative analysis of three African countries
title_short What is the impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure, and impoverishment?: a comparative analysis of three African countries
title_sort what is the impact of social health protection on access to health care health expenditure and impoverishment a comparative analysis of three african countries
topic health economics
poverty
social protection
insurance
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/172148
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