PHM-Exch> MMS Bulletin 120: Improving Access through Effective Health Financing

[mleschhorn at medicusmundi.ch]

MMS Bulletin, No. 120
Improving Access through Effective Health Financing 
READER OF THE SWISS TPH'S SPRING SYMPOSIUM 2011

The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute held its annual Spring Symposium on April 5th, 2011. This event focused on Improving Access through Effective Health Financing. Invited speakers and experts from international organizations, partner countries and the Swiss TPH presented experiences and discussed options and strategies for improving access to health services through effective health financing. In cooperation with the Swiss TPH the Network Medicus Mundi Switzerland presents the debate of the Symposium in its latest edition of the MMS Bulletin. 

CONTENT
Martin Leschhorn Strebel, Manfred Stoermer:
Improving Access through Effective Health Financing: Report on the Swiss TPH Sping Symposium

Wolfgang Bichmann
Empowering Clients to Exercise Choice: Experiences with demand-side financing and voucher schemes

Debora Kern
Health financing is increasingly important: Policy Perspectives of SDC for Improving Access through Health Financing

Manfred Stoermer, Ralf Radermacher and Mackenzie Vanderhyden
Transforming Community Health Funds in Tanzania into Viable Social Health Insurance Schemes: the Challenges Ahead

Alexander Schulze, Samuel Frei
Improving financial access to healthcare through mutual health organisations? The case of Mali

Joao Costa
Too poor for Health Insurance? Viability of Health Insurance Systems in Tajikistan

Caroline Jehu-Appiah
Building-up National Health Insurance: The experience of Ghana

David M. Dror
Can we assume that people understand insurance principles? Reaching People through Micro Insurance: The Case of India & Nepal

Emmanuel Humba
Pioneering Social Health Insurance in Tanzania
The case of the National Health Insurance Fund

Online Edition: http://bit.ly/mtafSd
PDF Version: Bulletin 120[1]


Links:
------
[1] http://bit.ly/pq4PDj
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://phm.phmovement.org/pipermail/phm-exchange-phmovement.org/attachments/20110708/a149af73/attachment.html>