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Sharing the burden of sickness: mutual health insurance in Rwanda

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Mandatory participation in mutual health insurance schemes and public subsidies for the poor have led to considerable improvement in public health and health care in Rwanda, but even at US$ 2 a year, the price for some members of the population remains prohibitively high. Aimable Twahirwa reports from Kigali.

Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization

DOI: 10.2471/blt.08.021108

Author: Aimable Twahirwa

Language: English

Topic: Healthcare Systems and Reforms

Subfield: Finance

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: No poverty, Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1970933339

FWCI: 5.806

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Cited by: 50

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