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Community health fund (CHF) in Tanzania : predictors of and barriers to enrolment
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-103).
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| author | Chitama, Dereck |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/9459 Community health fund (CHF) in Tanzania : predictors of and barriers to enrolment Chitama, Dereck Thiede, Michael Health Economics Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-103). Most low-income countries have not been able to fulfill the health care needs of the poor, and especially the rural population. Budgetary and other resource constraints in the health sector have been the major causes of this failure. Tanzania, like any other poor country is faced with challenges in health care financing, such that it cannot provide adequate cushion against health care costs for the majority of its population. One response to this situation was the health care financing reforms which among others saw the introduction of voluntary Community Health Fund (CHF) in 1996. The aim of the CHF was to mobilize resources through collection prepayments from households on a voluntary basis to fund primary health care for people in the informal sector operating in rural areas. However, CHF membership (enrollment) has been reported to be below the targeted coverage of 85% of the population living in rural areas. The percentage of households joining CHF has been ranging from 4% to 18% in various districts. This low enrolment prompted the need to study the predictors of and barriers to enrolment in CHF. 2014-11-09T15:52:31Z 2014-11-09T15:52:31Z 2007 Master Thesis Masters MPH http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9459 eng application/pdf Health Economics Unit Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Health Economics Chitama, Dereck Community health fund (CHF) in Tanzania : predictors of and barriers to enrolment |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Community health fund (CHF) in Tanzania : predictors of and barriers to enrolment |
| title_full | Community health fund (CHF) in Tanzania : predictors of and barriers to enrolment |
| title_fullStr | Community health fund (CHF) in Tanzania : predictors of and barriers to enrolment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community health fund (CHF) in Tanzania : predictors of and barriers to enrolment |
| title_short | Community health fund (CHF) in Tanzania : predictors of and barriers to enrolment |
| title_sort | community health fund chf in tanzania predictors of and barriers to enrolment |
| topic | Health Economics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9459 |
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