<p class="imp-signature"><!--begin_signature--><!--end_signature--></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">MMS Bulletin, No. 120<strong><br style="color: #ff1010;" /><font size="3" style="color: #ff1010;">Improving Access through Effective Health Financing</font></strong> <br /> <strong>Reader of the Swiss TPH's Spring Symposium 2011</strong><br /> <br />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. <br /><br /><strong>Content</strong><br />
Martin Leschhorn Strebel, Manfred Stoermer:<br />
Improving Access through Effective Health Financing: Report on the Swiss TPH Sping Symposium<br /><br />
Wolfgang Bichmann<br />
Empowering Clients to Exercise Choice: Experiences with demand-side financing and voucher schemes<br /> </font><br /><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Debora Kern<br />
Health financing is increasingly important: Policy Perspectives of SDC for Improving Access through Health Financing<br /> <br />
Manfred Stoermer, Ralf Radermacher and Mackenzie Vanderhyden<br />
Transforming Community Health Funds in Tanzania into Viable Social Health Insurance Schemes: the Challenges Ahead<br /> <br />
Alexander Schulze, Samuel Frei<br />
Improving financial access to healthcare through mutual health organisations? The case of Mali<br /> <br />
Joao Costa<br />
Too poor for Health Insurance? Viability of Health Insurance Systems in Tajikistan<br /> <br />
Caroline Jehu-Appiah<br />
Building-up National Health Insurance: The experience of Ghana<br /> <br />
David M. Dror<br />
Can we assume that people understand insurance principles? Reaching People through Micro Insurance: The Case of India & Nepal<br /> <br />
Emmanuel Humba<br />
Pioneering Social Health Insurance in Tanzania<br />
The case of the National Health Insurance Fund<br /> <br />
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