Randolph Quaye

Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems

The Sub-Saharan African Experience

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores financing arrangements in Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda, introducing scholarship on post-colonial healthcare strategies in Africa during a decade of market-oriented healthcare reform. The author uses current research and case studies on African healthcare systems to analyze implications of various strategies for the future of African healthcare financing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9780761849308
• ISBN-10: 0761849300
• Artikelnr.: 28114208

Autorenporträt

Randolph Quaye is a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University and director of the Black World Studies Department. He received a B.A. from the University of Ghana, a M.A. from Acadia University, and a Ph.D. from Northeastern University. Quaye, a member of Health Technology Assessment International, System Science in Health, and Tanzanian Public Heath Association, has published several previous works, including African Americans' Health Care Practices, Perspectives, and Needs (University Press of America, 2005) and Recent Reforms in the Swedish Health Care System: Implications for the Swedish Welfare State (University Press of America, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1. Crisis and Change in
African Health Care Financing Systems Chapter 4 2. Market Reforms in Health
Care and the Role of the State Chapter 5 3. User Fees: A Special Issue for
Health Care Delivery in Africa Chapter 6 4. Health Care Financing in
Uganda: The Role of Social Health Insurance Chapter 7 5. Balancing Public
and Private Health Care in Tanzania Chapter 8 6. Health Care Financing in
Ghana: Role of the National Health Insurance Scheme Chapter 9 7. The Role
of Community Health Funding in Health Care Access in Africa: Lessons from
Tanzania Chapter 10 8. Health Care Financing Strategies: Lessons from
Abroad Chapter 11 References