A Sustainable Social Health Insurance Scheme: Lessons from Ghana

This book has come as a result of great effort by the author. It contains carefully collated information on the National Health Insurance of Ghana which reflects the author s wealth of knowledge and experience in the operations of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana. The book also shows the initiatives, reforms and challenges that the scheme has gone through, as well as its achievements over the years. The information contained in the book represents the past, present and the anticipated future of Ghana s health insurance scheme. The depth of information contained in this book makes it useful as a textbook for second cycle schools, teacher training colleges, nurses training colleges and other tertiary institutions who want to introduce health insurance as part of their curricula. Members of the public who want to update their knowledge on Ghana s health insurance scheme would find this book very useful.

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Mr. Emmanuel Reinfred Okyere is one of the managers who set up the Health Insurance in Ghana. He started as a Scheme Manager, later as a Regional Manager and an Operations Manager. He holds MSc Environmental Science and has experience in Monitoring and Evaluation. He is married to Mrs. Agnes Okyere and has two children, Pearl and Joshua.