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The SHIELD (Strategies for Health Insurance for Equity in Less Developed Countries) project has produced a set of information sheets. SHIELD aims to critically evaluate existing inequities in health systems and to examine the extent to which insurance (mechanisms to provide financial protection) can address these inequities in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania.

WHO PAYS FOR HEALTH CARE IN SOUTH AFRICA?
Di McIntyre
http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/heu//SHIELD/reports/SHIELD_SouthAfrica_WhoPaysForHealthCare.pdf

WHO BENEFITS FROM HEALTH CARE IN SOUTH AFRICA?
Di McIntyre
http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/heu//SHIELD/reports/SHIELD_SouthAfrica_WhoBenefitsFromHealthCare.pdf

WHO PAYS FOR HEALTH CARE IN TANZANIA?
Gemini Mtei and Josephine Borghi
http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/heu//SHIELD/reports/SHIELD_Tanzania_WhoPaysForHealthCare.pdf

WHO BENEFITS FROM HEALTH CARE IN TANZANIA?
Suzan Makawia, Jane Macha, Mariam Ally and Josephine Borghi
http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/heu//SHIELD/reports/SHIELD_Tanzania_WhoBenefits%20fromHealthCare.pdf

WHO PAYS FOR HEALTH CARE IN GHANA?
James Akazili
http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/heu//SHIELD/reports/SHIELD_Ghana_WhoPays%20forHealthCare.pdf

WHO BENEFITS FROM HEALTH CARE IN GHANA?
Bertha Garshong
http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/heu//SHIELD/reports/SHIELD_Ghana_WhoBenefitsFromHealthCare.pdf

ACCESS BARRIERS TO THE USE OF HEALTH CARE IN GHANA
Bertha Garshong
http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/heu//SHIELD/reports/SHIELD_Ghana_Access%20barriers.pdf

SHIELD is a multi-partner project: Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town; Centre for Health Policy, University of the Witwatersrand; Ghana Health Services; Ifakara Health Institute; London School of Hygience & Tropical Medicine; Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp; Royal Tropical Institute KIT Development Policy & Practice; Karolinska Institutet

See the SHIELD website: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/heu/SHIELD/about/about.htm