Book Description

1, 2017 Organization of the Article This article examines how social health insurance can be made workable in spite of the challenges facing the idea by drawing on the experiences of four countries in sub-Saharan Africa in the administration of health insurance. [...] Although the ascendancy of the market economy, the trend towards minimalist government, a poor economic outlook and different interpretations of the role of the African state (as outlined by Kawabata 2006, for example) have combined to gradually alter the roles of government in the developing world, and Africa in particular, the importance of government as an organizer, implementer and regulator o. [...] a powerful equalizer that abolishes distinctions between the rich and the poor, the privileged and the marginalized, the young and the old, ethnic groups, and women and men (Chan 2012). [...] Depth of coverage corresponds to the number and quality of services and assesses the range of health services available to meet the healthcare needs of covered populations. [...] Strong political leadership also featured in the cases of South Africa and Nigeria, although for the former, the apartheid root of the health insurance system deprived the scheme of equity as a key UHC objective, which has not been redressed in the post-apartheid period.