Год выпуска: 2014 Автор: Robert Basaza Издательство: Scholars' Press Страниц: 176 ISBN: 9783639717396
Описание
The book provides an invaluable understanding of Community health insurance (CHI) in Uganda. It is an investigation into the obstacles and prospects for CHI schemes. It addresses the: (1) demand and supply side factors to explain the low levels in CHI schemes; (2) the perceptions of CHI held by those enrolled and those not enrolled (3) knowledge, understanding and perceptions of the relevance of CHI and (4) formulates evidence-based policy recommendations for the Ugandan health sector. The reasons for not joining CHI schemes specific to the Ugandan context are: (1) inappropriate entrance rules; (2) unattractive benefit packages; and (3) lack of involvement of first- line health units, which all reduce the attractiveness of the CHI schemes. The policy options proposed are: (1) CHI implementation continues to be restricted to the private, not-for-profit sub-sector, (2) the health sector implements CHI in the public sector, which implicitly means abandoning the policy of the abolition of...
