Background Strategic purchasing can ensure that financial resources are used in a way that
optimally enhances the attainment of health system goals. A number of low-and middle …

Making use of mobile phones can drive the expansion of insurance coverage in low-income
markets. It should increase the efficiency of transactions across the entire value chain …

Insurance companies provide unique financial services to the growth and development of
every economy. Such specialized financial services range from the underwriting of risks …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to establish the major determinants of uptake of
medical cover at Kenya's National Health Insurance Fund by informal sector workers among …

This research study sets out to examine whether the growth of microinsurance in Kenya is
affected by how insurance underwriters price their products. The research objective was to …

The need for enhanced access to insurance at affordable rates to the lower end of the
market is well set out in the Kenya Vision 2030 and other government policy documents. The …

I sincerely thank my supervisors Dr. Joseph M. Muniu and Prof. Nelson HW Wawire for their
constructive guidance and suggestions that went a long way towards shaping this work. I …

This report reviews and summarizes the existing evidence on the impact of access to
financial services/products on measures of production, income and wealth, consumption …

Health microinsurance (HMI) has been used around the globe since the early 1990s for
financial risk protection against health shocks in poverty-stricken rural populations in low …

This study examined the factors affecting health insurance uptake among people living with
disability in Kenya. Using the KHIBS 2015/2016 dataset a binary probit model is estimated …