Rationale: The use of reinsurance has been proposed as an alternative to traditional forms of capital for micro health insurance entities. However, there is almost no literature on the ramifications of this substitution, notably the fit of different types of reinsurance and comparisons of the...

The three partners in the equation of health insurance are the clients, the providers of care and the insurers. Each of the stakeholders aims at different objectives: providers of healthcare seek to deliver health services, and each provider focuses on those services that it has capacity to...

From various national or international sources, this paper is an attempt to do a check up on social exclusion in French-speaking countries relatively to the health condition. In the same time it is a diagnosis about the lack of health covering and the reasons of that situation.The present state...

Background: In recent years, supported by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), a number of community based health insurance (CBHI) schemes have been operating in rural India. Such schemes design their benefit packages according to local priorities. This paper examines healthcare seeking...

The definition of microinsurance can be split into its two aspects: Firstly, what constitutes insurance and secondly, what is micro in microinsurance. This chapter offers an explanation of both aspects

Background & Objectives: Despite remarkable progress in airborne, vector-borne and waterborne diseases in India, the morbidity associated with these diseases is still high. Many of these diseases are controllable through awareness and preventive practice. This study was an attempt to evaluate...

This report is based on information collected in two districts of Nepal (Banke and Dhading) in early 2009 and concerns the launch of community-based micro health insurance units for members of Nirdhan and DEPROSC, two grassroots microfinance NGOs. The study entailed a household survey of 2,008...