How much money is needed for financially viable health microinsurance in low-income settings?

Book: Financing Health Microinsurance: Theory, Methods, Evidence

"This book offers a rare analysis of how peripheral societies can develop health financing solutions locally through consensus, self-governance, and self-financing. In fact, it shows that promoting community ('micro') solutions can contribute to achieving the global aim of universal health coverage. Furthermore, the utilization of local information, local provision, local talent and local rules-in-use to devise local solutions, unlike top-down 'think globally' solutions, can set in motion a dynamic for devising local solutions. Considering that the Protection Gap is growing, this book invites all well-intentioned persons to pay more attention and direct more investments to 'act locally'." -- Michael J Morrissey, President & Chief Executive Officer, International Insurance Society "The focus is on real-life questions. The reader meets men and women, communities, living conditions, calculations, hesitations, anxieties and projects driven by the rejection of fatalism. A whole section of vast 'uncovered areas' of development macroeconomics as well as microeconomics of insurance, is being written … Dr Dror's book constitutes a solid basis to raise some new questions, such as how big data can be employed better. What role should international organisations and the insurance industry play in providing technical assistance at the grassroots level? Or how to articulate microinsurance with a new class of securitized funds; Or, the portability of experiments across locations to succeed in applying the most appropriate models to different contexts. This book has the merit of motivating researchers to address these questions." -- Asia Insurance Review "This book is an authentic treatise on applied economics. Theoretical or methodological issues treated are neither intangible nor speculative, but rational answers to identified problems … A remarkable feature of this book is the very extensive bibliography and literature reviews, which are a valuable aid to the researcher or expert who is interested in this topic." -- Insurance and Risk Management