Extending social health insurance to the informal sector in Kenya. An assessment of factors affecting demand.

@article{Mathauer2008ExtendingSH,
  title={Extending social health insurance to the informal sector in Kenya. An assessment of factors affecting demand.},
  author={Inke Mathauer and Jean-Olivier Schmidt and Maurice Wenyaa},
  journal={The International journal of health planning and management},
  year={2008},
  volume={23 1},
  pages={
          51-68
        }
}
This paper contributes to analysing and understanding the demand for (social) health insurance of informal sector workers in Kenya by assessing their perceptions and knowledge of and concerns regarding health insurance and the Kenyan National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). It serves to explore how informal sector workers could be integrated into the NHIF. To collect data, focus group discussions were held with organized groups of informal sector workers of different types across the country… 
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