Article ID: | iaor20071344 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 273 |
End Page Number: | 288 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2004 |
Journal: | World Development |
Authors: | Jtting Johannes P. |
Keywords: | developing countries |
Community-based health insurance is an emerging and promising concept, which addresses health care challenges faced in particular by the rural poor. The aim of this paper is to analyse 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: Members of