Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance: Staying the Course

This book reviews global trends in scaling up health insurance as one of several sources of revenue under a multi-pillar system for funding health care. The book reviews the political and institutional process of expanding health insurance coverage in developing countries with a special focus on recent trends in the Africa Region. The important role of governments in establishing a comprehensive policy framework, subsidizing premiums for the poor, and addressing fragmentation in existing risk-sharing arrangement are discussed in detail.