Open AccessGabon gets everyone under one social health insurance roof
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
bulletin of the world health organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.459
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1564-0604
pISSN - 0042-9686
DOI - 10.2471/blt.13.020513
Subject(s) - health insurance , business , social determinants of health , social insurance , control (management) , public health , actuarial science , environmental health , economic growth , medicine , health care , economics , nursing , market economy , management
Gabon's comprehensive health insurance system is attracting virtually all of its citizens, but to be sustainable it will need to get costs under control. Gary Humphreys reports.