One of the major challenges for health systems is to ensure that everybody has access to needed care without facing catastrophic payments or impoverishment. Argentina is middle income country that has experienced remarkable transformations in income distribution and inequality in the last...

This paper summarizes the results of three individual research projects (Asfaw, 2005; Lamiraud et al., 2005; Xu et al., 2005) measuring the impact of membership in a health insurance scheme in three African countries, namely Kenya, Senegal and South Africa. It is structured as follows. The first section...