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CALL FOR PAPERS for the official Handbook of Micro Health Insurance in Africa is closed: Thank you for your contributions!

CALL FOR PAPERS IS CLOSED SINCE 15th OF JULY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS!!

The Pro MHI Africa Handbook of Micro Health Insurance in Africa - Call for Papers

The international Pro MHI Africa network will publish a common Handbook of Micro Health Insurance in Africa by the end of 2009 that will contain the results of the two-years-research as well as numerous external contributions within the field of Micro Health Insurance in Africa to guarantee a multifaceted scientific and practitioner perspective. All interested researchers and micro health insurance practitioners are herewith called to contribute their proposals for this Handbook. Please note that all accepted papers are supposed to be presented at the Final Conference of the Pro MHI Africa project which will take place in December 2009 in Lilongwe.

The proposals should deal with one or several of the following sections and subthemes:
1) Insurance Education
a. Awareness Rising on Micro Health Insurance and Insurance Literacy
b. Development of Teaching and Training methods and material
c. Implementation of Teaching and Training methods and material
2) Internal Conditions of Micro Health Insurance
a. Feasibility of Micro Health Insurance
b. Setting up of a Micro Health Insurance Scheme
c. Management and Governance of Micro Health Insurance
3) External Context of Micro Health Insurance
a. Micro Health Insurance and Public Health
b. The Role of Networks, Umbrella Organizations and Federations
c. The Role of Reinsurance
d. Other external partnerships, cooperations and collaborations

Please find the official call for papers HERE.

Accepted papers are supposed to be presented during the Final Conference
of the Pro MHI Africa project in Lilongwe in December 2009!


Proposals should be submitted until 15th of July 2009 online only at the following address: Lisa-Marie.Rohrdantz@uni-koeln.de


You will receive the notification of acceptance until 1st of August 2009.


After acceptance full Papers should be submitted until 31th of September 2009. Length of full papers should be ten to twenty pages, short papers with a minimum of 5 pages will be accepted as exceptional cases only as well as papers up to thirty pages.


Accepted papers will be published in the Handbook that is supposed to be distributed during the conference. Authors are free to modify their papers for the conference presentation.


If you have any questions regarding the Handbook or the Call for Proposals do not hesitate to contact us: Lisa-Marie.Rohrdantz@uni-koeln.de


We are looking forward to your proposals!


With best regards,
The Pro MHI Africa team