Title:
Do community-based health insurance schemes improve poor people's access to health care? : evidence from rural Senegal
Authors:
Jütting, Johannes P.
Year:
2004
Journal:
World development
Volume:
32(2004)2
PAGE:
273--288
Subject:
Health and Poverty
Keywords:
health insurance, community participation, health services, use studies, rural areas, senegal
Abstract:
This paper analyses whether rural Senegal members of a health insurance scheme are actually better-off than non-members. The results show that in poor environments, insurance programs can work and that, while the schemes achieved to attract poor people, the poorest of the poor remained excluded.
URL:
https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0305750X03002122?token=4FA28F5C3C12B6E3DD1669BF2BAF3B24B28590B459F5C67D109DC70800B83556527CBC148E9EE22865777338D2C45574&originRegion=eu-west-1&originCreation=20230320091512
Document type:
E-article