Togo

ASC staff specialization on Togo

• E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal

Research projects in Togo

Community based health insurance and the well-being of children and households in Plan communities in Togo
Marleen Dekker and André Leliveld

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) remains an important global challenge. Better protection for the poor against health risks is crucial in this endeavor and micro or community-based health-insurance (CBHI) schemes are being advanced as a means to reduce and stabilize the costs of treatment, increase access to health care and reduce the use of costly risk-coping strategies. In the past two decades, hundreds of small schemes have been implemented across the globe (Bennett et al., 1998) but, to date, profound empirical evidence of the effects of health insurance is still limited. The objectives of this project are (i) to understand the impact of CBHI on (improved) access to health care and the health status of children and their families and (ii) the contribution of CBHI to poverty reduction and wellbeing.