Analysis of the financial and social performance of mutual health insurance companies

Health financing in the DRC comes from four main sources, namely: the government, donors and international partners, the community through the consumption of health services and care, and the financing of private for-profit or non-profit organizations, including public and private companies, through the provision of health services to their personnel either through their own health structures or through medical agreements signed with public structures. Health financing also includes the contribution of mutual health insurance companies in the DRC with regard to the related problems. In particular: (i) the small size of the state budget allocated to health, which remains low and far below the commitments made by the Heads of State and Government in Abuja on 20/04/2011, which required each signatory country to allocate at least 15% of the national budget to the health sector. (ii) the fragmentation of development aid devoted to health, thus jeopardizing the comprehensive, contained and integrated nature of health care.

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Eustache Ndokabilya Dunia, licenciado en Epidemiología en Salud Pública y Salud Comunitaria. Nacido en Minova el 3 de julio de 1981, es especialista en desarrollo de sistemas sanitarios, seguimiento y evaluación de programas y comunicación para el cambio social y de comportamiento. Trabaja en Cooperación Internacional.