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HEU researchers (Di Mcintyre, John Ataguba and James Akazili) recently completed a chapter contribution that outlines some of the challenges faced when carrying out a financing benefit incidence in Ghana, Tanzania and SA and illustrates how innovative techniques were used to overcome data weaknesses in these settings. The chapter draws on the work of SHIELD – HEU’s collaborative project that looks at strategies for health insurance in less developed countries.

The chapter forms part of the a volume of work that aims to draw together the best conceptual and applied research to reflect on the structure of the system for financing health care and policy implications for strengthening health financing in developing countries. Details below.

Josephine Borghi, John Ataguba, Gemini Mtei, James Akazili, Filip Meheus, Clas Rehnberg and Di McIntyre
“Methodological challenges in evaluating health care financing equity in data-poor contexts: Lessons from Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania”
Advances in health economics and health services research, volume 21
[Eds. Kara Hanson and Dov Chernichovsky]
Published by: Emerald Group Publishing Limited