Community-based health insurance is an emerging and promising concept, which
addresses health care challenges faced in particular by the rural poor. The aim of this paper …

This paper emphasizes bequest motives by evaluating participation patterns in micro life
insurance against insurance demand and supply side factors. Based on household survey …

Introduction: Community-based health insurance schemes are becoming increasingly
recognized as a tool to finance health care in developing countries. The Ethiopian …

Using household level data and double-bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation
method, the article investigates the prospect of community health insurance schemes in …

While inadequate food and communicable infectious diseases have been a concern of
researchers and policy makers in Africa, little attention has been given to obesity and …

We applied a decision tool for rationing choices, with a predetermined budget of about US
$11 per household per year, to identify priorities of poor people regarding health insurance …

The purpose of this study was to analyse the effects of the National Health Insurance
Scheme (NHIS) on the probability of utilizing outpatient care and its related out-of-pocket …

This book provides a detailed account of the lives of the poor, particularly their use of social
networks to meet everyday needs. Based on fieldwork in Cameroon, the book provides a …

Microinsurance is an emerging concept protecting households from the potentially
catastrophic expenditures associated with family related shocks. Therefore, this paper …

It has become clear that due to market failure, state failure, and other reasons, the
conventional sources of finance alone could not solve the health problem of the rural …