Coverage of cost-effective maternal health services remains poor due to insufficient supply
and inadequate demand for these services among the poorest groups. Households pay too …

Background Nigeria has included a regulated community-based health insurance (CBHI)
model within its National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Uptake to date has been …

Background Mutuelles is a community-based health insurance program, established since
1999 by the Government of Rwanda as a key component of the national health strategy on …

We discuss the conceptual foundations of measuring (in) equity in health and health care.
After an overview of the recent developments in the measurement of socioeconomic …

Mutual health organizations (MHOs) are voluntary membership organizations providing
health insurance services to their members. MHOs aim to increase access to health care by …

OBJECTIVE: Rwanda has expanded mutual health insurance considerably in recent years,
which has a great potential for making health services more accessible. In this paper, we …

Community-based health insurance (CBHI) has been incorporated into the health financing
strategies of governments and communities in several Sub-Saharan African countries …

From 2000 to 2010, Rwanda implemented comprehensive health sector reforms to
strengthen the public health system, with the aim of reducing maternal and newborn deaths …

In recent years, a number of reviews have generated evidence on the potential of community
health insurance (CHI) to increase access to care and offer financial protection against the …

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the insurability of risks in microinsurance
markets. Our aim is to enhance the understanding of impediments to and facilitators of …