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Health Financing in Ghana (Directions in Development)
Author(s): George Schieber (Author), Cheryl Cashin (Author), Karima Saleh (Author), Rouselle Lavado (Author)
- Publisher: World Bank Publications
- Publication Date: 14 Aug. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 200 pages
- ISBN-10: 0821395661
- ISBN-13: 9780821395660
Book Description
“Ghana is one of only several African countries to enact legislation and earmark financing for universal health insurance coverage for its entire population. Seven years into its implementation the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has made significant progress in transitioning to universal coverage, but faces significant fiscal and coverage challenges. This study reviews Ghana’s health financing system with a special emphasis on its National Health Insurance Scheme. Such an assessment is important because Ghana is often considered a global ‘good practice’ in terms of earmarking significant amounts of its general revenues for health insurance coverage, providing formal coverage to its vulnerable population groups, and extending coverage by transitioning its existing community health insurance schemes into a national health insurance program.
