Social Capital and Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: Understanding Informal Sector Participation
(2014) EKHM52 20141Department of Economic History
- Abstract
- Pursuing Universal Health Care in a developing economy like Ghana is a bold, laudable idea. Given the immutable benefits of Social Health Insurance in this pursuit, the long-term performance of Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) Schemes in developing countries remains a conundrum when viewed from the predominant economic and health system frameworks. In the context of a weak state with a large informal sector however, this study demonstrates that the inclusion of a social context in the foundational framework yields valuable insights that must inform the conceptualization, design and implementation of CBHI-founded Social Health Insurance initiatives across the developing world.
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- author
- Akuoko, Kofi Abankwa LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- EKHM52 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- language
- English
- id
- 4500285
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- 2014-06-26 10:33:42
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@misc{4500285, abstract = {{Pursuing Universal Health Care in a developing economy like Ghana is a bold, laudable idea. Given the immutable benefits of Social Health Insurance in this pursuit, the long-term performance of Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) Schemes in developing countries remains a conundrum when viewed from the predominant economic and health system frameworks. In the context of a weak state with a large informal sector however, this study demonstrates that the inclusion of a social context in the foundational framework yields valuable insights that must inform the conceptualization, design and implementation of CBHI-founded Social Health Insurance initiatives across the developing world.}}, author = {{Akuoko, Kofi Abankwa}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Social Capital and Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: Understanding Informal Sector Participation}}, year = {{2014}}, }