Three Essays on Health Financing in Sub-Saharan Africa

Health Shocks, Health Insurance Uptake, and Financial Risk Protection

Adeyemi Okunogbe

ResearchPublished Apr 12, 2019

In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), out-of-pocket health spending constitutes a significant proportion of household expenditures, thereby exposing households to a high risk of impoverishment and potential worsening of already poor health outcomes. This dissertation is a series of three essays on health financing in SSA using quantitative and comparative case study methods.

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Okunogbe, Adeyemi, Three Essays on Health Financing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Health Shocks, Health Insurance Uptake, and Financial Risk Protection. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2019. https://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD423.html.
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This document was submitted as a dissertation in November 2018 in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the doctoral degree in public policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. The faculty committee that supervised and approved the dissertation consisted of Peter Hussey (Chair), Edward Okeke, and Diana Bowser (Brandeis University).

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