Ghana's approach to social health protection

Overview

The need to develop domestic health financing systems that offer social health protection is now well established and much of the rationale  was set out  and discussed previously.1-7  Almost half of the world's population lacks  social health protection  and therefore, has to mobilize out-of-pocket resources for  health care and cope with any  loss of  earnings due to illness from  their own  resources. More than 90%  of the people who are  unable to  seek appropriate care live in low-income countries. 

This report is part of a series, The World Health Report 2010 Background Papers, which were written to inform the process of developing the key messages of the World Health Report 2010: Health systems financing: The path to universal coverage.