Liebe InteressentInnen!

Vielen Dank für Ihr Interesse am Verfassen einer Abschlussarbeit in unserem Projekt "Pro MHI Africa".

Im Folgenden finden Sie eine Übersicht über mögliche Themen, die Sie in Ihrer Abschlussarbeit behandeln können (nach Ländern unterteilt). Diese Liste soll als "Ideengeber" verstanden werden und nicht als vollständige Liste.

Eigene Themenwünsche sind jederzeit willkommen und ausdrücklich erwünscht. Cross-country Analysen und länderübergreifende komparative Untersuchungen sind ebenfalls möglich und wünschenswert. Das Verfassen der Arbeit ist auf Deutsch und Englisch möglich.

Eine Übersicht zum Kontext von Mikrokrankenversicherungen finden Sie zudem HIER.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Anmeldung! Nach dem Eingang aller Anmeldungen, wird der Termin zur allgemeinen Informationsveranstaltung bekannt gegeben.

Viel Spaß bei der Themensuche und mit besten Grüßen,

Ihr Pro MHI Africa Team Köln

Botswana:

• Utilization and spending on health care services in Botswana
• The demand for community-based micro health insurance schemes in Botswana
• A rural-urban comparison of utilization and spending on health care services in Botswana
• Financial protection against health care costs: the potential role of MHI
• Access to health care services in Botswana
• Determinants of enrolment in ITEKANELE
• Outreach of ITEKANELE (rural/urban)
• Determinants of membership at WFHB
• Women and health care: improved access with WFHB?
• Ability and willingness to pay for health insurance: a comparison between insured and non-insured
• Membership attitudes towards ITEKANELE and/or WFHB
• Awareness and Marketing of MHI: Opportunities and Challenges
• Do existing health insurance schemes reach the poor?
• Needs and possibilities of micro health insurance in Botswana
• Membership attitudes towards ITEKANELE and/or WFHB
• From microfinance to micro insurance: How microfinance institutions develop microinsurance and micro health insurance in Botswana
• The District Health Information System in Botswana and it's potential to support micro health insurance in Botswana
• Health politics in Botswana and the need of decentralized micro health insurance units to reach the (rural) poor
• Traditional health risk management in rural communities: Limits and opportunities
• The role of health organisations and micro health insurance schemes in improving access to subsidized governmental health services
• Opportunities and challenges for health insurance companies to reach the poor
• The burden of high cost illnesses (e.g. HIV/AIDS and chronic diseases) on health insurance schemes and governmental services.
• ...

Ghana:

• Utilization and spending on health care services
• Does the NHIS reach the poor?
• Equity in health care utilization through NHIS. A comparison between insured and non-insured.
• Financial protection against health care costs: the role of the NHIS
• Is `cash and carry´ history in Ghana?
• Determinants of enrolment in NHIS
• Reasons for being not insured with the NHIS
• Women and health care: improved access since the NHIA?
• Ability and willingness to pay for health insurance: a comparison between insured and non-insured.
• Membership attitudes towards the district mutual health insurance schemes.
• Awareness and Marketing of NHIS: Opportunities and Challenges
• ‘Social’ success of district mutual health insurance schemes: differences between the West Gonja scheme and the Dangme West scheme.
• Challenges for district mutual health insurance schemes to achieve the NHIS´ objectives.
• Is the availability of proper health care providers crucial for future success of the NHIS?
• In-kind paying for Micro Health Insurance in Ghana
• ...

 Malawi:

• Utilization and spending on health care services
• The demand for community-based micro health insurance schemes in Malawi
  
• Out of pocket payments for health care in Malawi
• Quality of health care in Malawi
• Feasibility of Micro Health Insurance - a case study from Malawi
• Health risk management methods in Malawi
• Catastrophic health care costs
• Wealth and income and their relationship with the disease burden
• The From Microfinance to Microinsurance in Malawi - a case study of MUSSCO
• A rural-urban comparison of utilization and spending on health care services in Malawi
• Financial protection against health care costs: the potential role of Micro Health Insurance
• Access to health care services in Malawi
• Ability and willingness to pay for health insurance
• The relevance of out-of-pocket payments in public, private and church-based health care facilities
• Access to microcredit and the ability to cope with health care costs
• Social capital and heatlh care utilization/ability to cope with health care costs
• What is the burden of diseases in Malawi?
• Effects of membership in microfinance institutions (FINCA and MUSCCO)
• ...

Anmeldungen bitte bis zum 22.07.2009 per Mail an: lisa-marie.rohrdantz@uni-koeln.de