"To enrol or not to enrol?": A qualitative investigation of demand for health insurance in rural West Africa

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1520-1527

  De Allegri, Manuela ^a   Sanon, Mamadou ^b   Sauerborn, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Nouna Health Research Centre   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

Africa; Burkina Faso; Community based health insurance; Demand; Health insurance

Indexed keywords

HEALTH INSURANCE; POLICY MAKING; RURAL POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL BELIEF;

ADULT; AGED; BURKINA FASO; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

AFRICA; BURKINA FASO; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 32044462741     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.07.036     Document Type: Article

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