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Building Public and Private Sectors Capacity to Partner for Greater Health Impact

In an effort to foster health systems strengthening and country ownership of the health sector, the Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project, with financial support from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), organized a Network for Africa (N4A)…

Commercial Approaches for Reaching the Unreached: Lessons from the Market-based Partnerships for Health Project

This presentation reviews the work completed under the Market-based Partnerships for Health project, which was a USAID-initative implemented by Abt.Abt Associates. This project sought to forge commercially sustainabile partnerships with the private sector on a range of public health issues.…

Étude sur le Secteur Privéde la Santé au Mali

La présente évaluation par pays du secteur privé de la santé au Mali fait partie d’unesérie d’études destinée à approfondir la connaissances des méthodes permeanttant d’améliorer le cadre de politique générale en matière de santé, l’environnement des af-faires et le climat de l’investissement…

Étude sur le Secteur Privé de la Santé en République du Congo

Le secteur privé n’a commencé qu’en 1988 à jouer un rôle dans le domaine de la santéen République du Congo, lorsque sa participation a été officiellement reconnue. Dèslors, le rôle des acteurs privés du domaine de la santé s’est considérablement amplifié et,pour cette raison, les biens et…

Lessons Learned and Opportunities: Supporting Partnerships for Greater Access to Health Care Coverage in the Formal Sector in Kenya

This presentation reviews the rationale for companies to provide health insurance and the role that governments, private companies, employees, and donors can play in the creation of low-cost health insurance products. It also reviews challenges to creating such products and ways to address them…

Health Insurance Coverage for Formal Sector Low Income Employees

This presentation reviews the challenges to providing insurance products to low income workers in Kenya. Dr. Wanyonyi recommends more engagement with low wage earners and partnerships between key players (employers, union members, insurance companies and donors) as ways to increase access to…

Challenges of Providing Low Cost Health Insurance to the Formal Sector

This presenation looks at the major challenges to providing access to health insurance in the formal sector in Kenya. These challenges include:

• Rising cost of claims which is outstripping the premiums paid into the insurance schemes 
• Prevelance of fraud
• Making products…

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  Year : 2012

  Language : English

  Technical Area: Health Financing

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Providing Health Insurance to the Low Income Employees of Formal Sector

This presentation discusses the benefits of and challenges to providing health insurance to low-income earners with a focus on Nigeria.

Low Cost Health Insurance: Why and How? The Namibia Experience

This presentation makes the case for low cost health insurance in Namibia based on the number of workers in the formal sector, the number of health workers in the private sector, and the need to increased access to health services. It also discusses challenges and lessons learned from previous…

Lessons Learned and Opportunities: Supporting Partnerships for Greater Access to Health Care Coverage in the Formal Sector in Nigeria

This presentation reviews the rationale for companies to provide health insurance and the role that governments, private companies, employees, and donors can play in the creation of low-cost health insurance products. It also reviews challenges to creating such products and ways to address them…