Background Community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes are an emerging tool for
providing financial protection against health-related poverty. In Ethiopia, CBHI is being …

This article first investigates the microfinance—principally microinsurance—market at the
global level and the business structure of over 600 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in 83 …

Objective Rwanda has expanded mutual health insurance considerably in recent years,
which has a great potential for making health services more accessible. In this paper, we …

Microinsurance is the provision of insurance services to the poor, usually in developing
countries. One of the key criteria of poverty is vulnerability even to minor events. In such …

1 Research Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, University of Antwerp, Belgium
2 Unit of Health Policy and Financing, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium 3 …

The inhabitants of South Kivu are vulnerable to poverty in the sense that they face high
exposure to risks, shocks, and stress on a daily basis, and have difficulties in coping without …

This study is concerned with health micro insurance (HMI) as a health financing option for
Cameroonians striving to access equitable and quality health care. Quite often issues of …

In addition to government‐sponsored health insurance schemes (GSHIS), many
microfinance institutions (MFIs) and community‐based organizations (CBOs) in India have …

This paper describes the diverse roots of microinsurance, including affinity groups,
microfinance providers, social protection advocates, and insurers seeking their fortune at the …

Low-income people in developing countries, who are the most vulnerable and particularly
exposed to risks in their daily life such as diseases or drought, often have no access to …