4 research outputs found
Disparities of Health Care: Challenge to Physicians
Challenges to the health sector: Finance and financial flows. Rapid growth of infrastructure. Human resource. Emerging diseases. Coordination. Legal framework. Poverty.
Challenges to the physician: Health reforms. Leadership role and head of team. Role model. Cost of care and poverty. Ethics in compromised social environment. CPD. Curative care/disease prevention and health promotion. Perpetual dilemma
Health financing reform in Kenya- assessing the social health insurance proposal
Kenya has had a history of health financing policy changes since its independence in 1963. Recently, significant preparatory work was done on a new Social Health Insurance Law that, if accepted, would lead to universal health coverage in Kenya after a tr&nsition period. Questions of economic feasibility and political acceptability continue to be discussed, with stakeholders voicing concerns on design features of the new proposal submitted to the Kenyan parliament in 2004. For economic, social, political and organisational reasons a transition period will be necessary, which is likely to last more than a decade. However, important objectives such as access to health care and avoiding impoverishment due to direct health care payments should be recognised from the start so that steady progress towards effective universal coverage can be planned and achieved