Objetivo Recent health financing reforms in low and middle income countries aim to introduce affordable prepayment and subsidies for low socio-economic groups. However, while such reforms have led to increased utilization of care, often the poor and informal sector continue to be excluded from coverage.Health Inc. puts forward the hypothesis that social exclusion is an important cause of the limited success of recent health financing reforms. First, social exclusion can explain barriers to accessing health care due to disrespectful, discriminatory or culturally inappropriate practices of medical professionals and their organisations, within the context of poor accessibility and quality of care. As a consequence, removing financial barriers does not necessarily guarantee equitable access to care. Second, social exclusion can explain barriers to accessing the health financing mechanism itself. Differential access to information, bureaucratic processes, complex eligibility rules and/or crude and stigmatizing criteria for means testing prevent socially excluded groups from enrolling in financing schemes, even if they are fully subsidised. Social inclusion, by contrast, may explain why more powerful, wealthy and vocal groups disproportionately ‘capture’ the benefits of publicly funded health care.In four countries/states (Ghana, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Senegal), Health Inc. employs mixed methods to analyse whether different types of financing arrangements overcome social exclusion and also increase social inclusion by empowering socially marginalised groups. A multi-sectoral stakeholder analysis will also explore whether vulnerable populations participate in policy making and whether their needs are understood.Health Inc. will compare policies across contexts in order to elicit lessons. Local policy makers and population groups will then be consulted in a feasibility analysis to identify and test policy recommendations, which will be widely disseminated. Ámbito científico social sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalities Programa(s) FP7-HEALTH - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Health Tema(s) HEALTH.2010.3.4-7 - Financing models for accessible health care. FP7-HEALTH-2010-single-stage Convocatoria de propuestas FP7-HEALTH-2010-single-stage Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoria Régimen de financiación CP-FP-SICA - Small/medium-scale focused research project for specific cooperation actions dedicated to international cooperation partner countries(SICA) Coordinador LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Aportación de la UE € 830 229,07 Dirección Houghton Street 1 WC2A 2AE London Reino Unido Ver en el mapa Región London Inner London — West Westminster Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Milena Vasileva (Ms.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos Participantes (5) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo INSTITUUT VOOR TROPISCHE GENEESKUNDE Bélgica Aportación de la UE € 589 787,20 Dirección NATIONALESTRAAT 155 2000 ANTWERPEN Ver en el mapa Región Vlaams Gewest Prov. Antwerpen Arr. Antwerpen Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Bart Criel (Dr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos Tata Institute of Social Sciences India Aportación de la UE € 338 261,12 Dirección V.N.Purav Marg, Deonar 400088 Mumbai Ver en el mapa Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Harshad Thakur (Prof.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH India Aportación de la UE € 345 401,92 Dirección 4th Cross, JP Nagar 3rd Phase 138 560078 BANGALORE Ver en el mapa Tipo de actividad Research Organisations Contacto administrativo Devadasan Narayanan (Dr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos CENTRE DE RECHERCHE SUR LES POLITIQUES SOCIALES Senegal Aportación de la UE € 325 990,71 Dirección RUE E X LEON GONTAN DAMAS FANN RESIDENCE 25233 DAKAR Ver en el mapa Tipo de actividad Other Contacto administrativo Ndiaye Alfred (Dr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITY OF GHANA Ghana Aportación de la UE € 334 376,31 Dirección LEGON BOUNDARY ROAD N/A LEGON ACCRA Ver en el mapa Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Felix Ankomah Asante (Dr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos
