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CHMI Team
Posted by CHMI Team
Jul 12 2011

Selected sessions from iHEA's 8th World Congress on Health Economics

Presentations on drug dispensing practices, CCTs and insurance programs

The 8th iHEA World Congress on Health Economics kicked off yesterday in Toronto, bringing together close to 2000 participants to discuss the application of economic principles to health and health systems research. CHMI staffers are in attendance to learn and report on new findings and present a poster on the new Reported Results Initiative.

A number of Monday’s presentations highlighted the prevalence of adverse drug dispensing practices. M.

Rose Reis
Posted by Rose Reis
Jun 22 2011

Collapsing barriers between the public and private sectors in Uganda

Dithan Kiragga of Health Initiatives for the Private Sector

At the first-annual Private Sector Working Group meeting, during last week’s Global Health Council, participants discussed approaches to improving governments’ engagement with the the private sector to improve the quality and affordability of health care. Here, I asked Dr. Dithan Kiragga, deputy chief of party for the USAID-funded Health Initiatives for the Private Sector (HIPS) about his experience with in Uganda organizing the private sector to better serve the poor.

Francie Lund
Posted by Francie Lund
Jun 7 2011

Engaging Informal Workers During Insurance Program Design

Advocating for women working in the informal economy to participate in the design of programs benefitting them

Woman mining salt in Gujarat as part of informal economy

Editor's Note: Below, the second dispatch from a meeting in Mombasa, Kenya, at which CHMI's sister project has convened a workshop to tackle the problem of how to provide health coverage to workers in the informal marketplace.

Tomorrow, I will conduct a session on Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) and our work with member-based organizations of poorer working people, especially women informal workers

Christina Synowiec
Posted by Christina Synowiec
Mar 7 2011

Universal Health Coverage: What’s all the buzz about?

Countries from South Africa to India to Indonesia are moving to cover everyone with healthcare. Complexities and challenges abound.

Global Health Council

Here, a dispatch from the work of a sister project here at R4D, part of coalescing global movement for... you guessed it. This is also posted at Blog 4 Global Health.

Universal Health Coverage.

Richard Leftley
Posted by Richard Leftley
Feb 10 2011

New Health Insurance Product in Africa

Part 2: Behind the scenes, or MicroEnsure's "Back Office" Setup

MicroEnsure Member card Center for Health Market Innovations

In the first post of a two-part series on creating a health insurance product to serve the poor in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, MicroEnsure’s Richard Leftley discussed the challenges involved in marketing a totally new kind of product through individual sales. Here, the MicroEnsure CEO discusses how they established infrastructure in Tanzania to carry risk and process requests—fulfill “back office” duties.

Richard Leftley
Posted by Richard Leftley
Feb 2 2011

Developing a New Market for Health Insurance in Africa

Part 1: The Sale or MicroEnsure’s “Front Office”

MicroEnsure

In Africa, insurance salespeople have long been analogous to used car salesmen in the US. Yet the need for health insurance in Africa is apparent. Out of pocket health spending pushes millions of families into poverty every year. Public facilities often lack the capacity needed to offer comprehensive healthcare, whilst the majority of the population lack the cashflow required to pay for the services offered by private healthcare facilities.

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