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            An Overview of Community-Based Health Financing  

 

            Partners for Health Reformplus - PHRplus Resource Center,
2004


Available online as PDf file [20p.] at:
http://www.phrplus.org/Pubs/sp11.pdf

".....In in the context of inadequate public expenditure in the health
sector, many countries have installed cost recovery systems, such as
user fees, as a supplementary financing approach for health care
services. This practice has raised concerns over equity and access to
health care for the poor, and the search for complementary financing
solutions continues. One response has been a rapidly growing phenomenon
in some developing countries: Community-based health financing (CBHF).

CBHF schemes are not a new phenomenon. Such schemes have been around for
a long time and in some caseshave evolved out of traditional risk
pooling mechanisms.

 

......This document aims to answer basic questions on Community-based
health financing (CBHF) that might be posed by policymakers and
technical assistance providers interested in this topic. The questions
and answers are not designed to provide a detailed guide for scheme
managers on how to set up CBHF schemes; rather they aim to provide to
decision makers in ministries of health and finance, international
organizations, and non-governmental organizations a broad outline of how
schemes are set up and how they operate, and an overview of their
advantages and limitations. 

 

Moreover, although Community-based health financing CBHF schemes are a
type of insurance, this document does not try to cover insurance theory.
The bibliography at the end of this paper provides additional resources
that readers should consult to learn more about the detailed steps in
setting up a CBHF scheme, or about insurance theory...."


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