Expanding Coverage through Health Insurance: An Ongoing Process

As countries strive to achieve universal health coverage, they must implement health insurance systems or other types of financial protection programs that protect people against financial risk and improve access to quality and affordable health care. This brief describes lessons learned by USAID’s Health Finance and Governance project (2012-2018) in its efforts to help countries sustain and expand coverage through health insurance, with several illustrations from Ghana and Ethiopia.

Authors: Hailu Zelelew, Nathan Blanchet, Andrew Won
Published: 2018
Pages: 16