Social health insurance development in low-income developing countries: New roles for government and nonprofit health insurance organizations in Africa and Asia

Building Social Security: The Challenge of Privatization

Volumn 6, Issue , 2017, Pages 125-154

  Carrin, Guy ^a   Desmet, Martinus ^a,b   Basaza, Robert ^b,c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Uganda)

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