MMS Bulletin

Schweizerische Online-Zeitschrift für Internationale Zusammenarbeit und Gesundheit

MMS Bulletin #120 / June 2011

Improving Access through Effective Health Financing - Reader of the Swiss TPH's Spring Symposium 2011

Editorial

Von Martin Leschhorn Strebel & Manfred Stoermer / Medicus Mundi Schweiz / Schweizerisches Tropen- und Public-Health Institut (Swiss TPH)

Introduction

Report on the Swiss TPH Sping Symposium

Improving Access through Effective Health Financing

Von Martin Leschhorn Strebel & Manfred Stoermer / Medicus Mundi Schweiz / Schweizerisches Tropen- und Public-Health Institut (Swiss TPH)

Improving Access through Effective Health Financing: Policy Perspectives

Experiences with demand-side financing and voucher schemes

Empowering Clients to Exercise Choice

Von Wolfgang Bichmann

Policy Perspectives of SDC for Improving Access through Health Financing

Health financing is increasingly important

Von Debora Kern / Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit DEZA

Principles in Practice: Programmes and Services

Building a sustainable financing mechanism for health care in the districts and municipalities

Transforming Community Health Funds in Tanzania into Viable Social Health Insurance Schemes: the Challenges Ahead

Von Manfred Stoermer & Ralf Radermacher and Mackenzie Vanderhyden / Schweizerisches Tropen- und Public-Health Institut (Swiss TPH)

The case of Mali

Improving financial access to healthcare through mutual health organisations?

Von Alexander Schulze & Samuel Frei / Novartis Foundation

Viability of Health Insurance Systems in Tajikistan

Too poor for Health Insurance?

Von Joao Costa / Schweizerisches Tropen- und Public-Health Institut (Swiss TPH)

Health Insurance under Scrutiny: Which Way to go?

The experience of Ghana

Building-up National Health Insurance

Von Caroline Jehu-Appiah

Reaching People through Micro Insurance: The Case of India & Nepal

Can we assume that people understand insurance principles?

Von David M. Dror

The case of the National Health Insurance Fund

Pioneering Social Health Insurance in Tanzania

Von Emmanuel Humba

Debatte

Chronische Krankheiten: Vernachlässigte strukturelle Ursachen

Das blinde Auge der Präventionsarbeit

Von Martin Leschhorn Strebel / Medicus Mundi Schweiz

Magazin

Centro de Promoción y Salud Integral, Bolivien

Politisch engagiert für Frauengesundheit