Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems - The Sub-saharan African Experience

Informationen zum Autor By Randolph Quaye Klappentext This book explores financing arrangements in Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda, introducing scholarship on post-colonial healthcare strategies in Africa during a decade of market-oriented healthcare reform. The author uses current research and case studies on African healthcare systems to analyze implications of various strategies for the future of African healthcare financing. Zusammenfassung This book explores financing arrangements in Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda, introducing scholarship on post-colonial healthcare strategies in Africa during a decade of market-oriented healthcare reform. The author uses current research and case studies on African healthcare syst... Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1. Crisis and Change in African Health Care Financing Systems Chapter 4 2. Market Reforms in Health Care and the Role of the State Chapter 5 3. User Fees: A Special Issue for Health Care Delivery in Africa Chapter 6 4. Health Care Financing in Uganda: The Role of Social Health Insurance Chapter 7 5. Balancing Public and Private Health Care in Tanzania Chapter 8 6. Health Care Financing in Ghana: Role of the National Health Insurance Scheme Chapter 9 7. The Role of Community Health Funding in Health Care Access in Africa: Lessons from Tanzania Chapter 10 8. Health Care Financing Strategies: Lessons from Abroad Chapter 11 References

Product details

• Authors: Randolph Quaye, Quaye Randolph
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2010
• EAN: 9780761849308
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-4930-8
• No. of pages: 90
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, Economics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, Regional Studies, Sociology & anthropology, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, global politics;political science