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Featured Blog Post

Posted by JLN ADMIN

Jun 13 2013

Alone we go faster, together we go further: communities of practice in support of making access to health care available to the poor?

By Fahdi Dkhimi, Maymouna Ba and Kadi Kadiatou

This blog is cross-posted from the Health Financing in Africa blog

From 24 to 27 September 2012, Financial Access to Health Services Community of Practice organized, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Morocco and JLN network, a workshop in Marrakech. In this blogpost, three members of FA CoP get back on the event. This blog post was also published as an editorial in the journal “Global Health Promotion”.

While most everyone today agrees that countries should begin moving toward universal health coverage (UHC), how to practically implement this worthy ambition remains less than clear. One of the major challenges is to strengthen equity in health financing, and more precisely, to improve access to healthcare for the poor.

Featured reform

Nigeria: National Health Insurance System

Coverage Level5 million

Types of Benefits

Comprehensive

Primary Source of Funding

Employer contributions

Provider Payment Mechanisms

Reform summary:

Nigeria is one of the first countries with demand driven health insurance for groups, where people can enroll for basic health insurance by forming a self-governed group of professionals, such as mechanics.As a part of the effort to strengthen the national health system, a National Health Policy (NHP) was adopted in 2006. NHP seeks to establish a realistic health financing system that has the capability of meeting health system goals of improved health status of Nigerians; financial protection of citizen against cost of illness; fair financing of health services; and responsiveness to the citizens’ expectations. This plan includes the implementation of a re-designed National Health Insurance System (NHIS).

The broad objectives of NHIS are:

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