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Technical Commission on Mutual Benefit Societies

Summary of findings 2008-2010

The extension of social health protection in developing countries is widely recognized as a priority. Various financing and institutional methods can be used in pursuing this objective, but none of them can achieve universal coverage in the short term.

Based on an analysis of the respective strengths and weaknesses of social health insurance and community-based health care schemes, this article demonstrates the high potential of coverage extension strategies that use a pluralistic institutional approach to establish linkages and exploit complementarities optimally. A typology of potential linkages among different methods is presented and their value added illustrated using country examples.

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2Mutual.pdf 199.09 kB

ISSA, 2010
Topics: Extending coverage, Social security and health, Demographic changes
Events: World Social Security Forum 2010
Regions: International
Language: English, French, German, Spanish

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