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Anzai, Tatsuya: For and against public care insurance for the elderly. Takiue, Sojiro: Bureaucratic medical care system needs dose of privatization. Wada, Hideki: Retirement at 75: A docter's prescription for the "aged society". Takahashi, Nobuaki: The exaggerated crisis of the aged society. Higuchi, Keiko: Toward a bright and cheerful aged society with fewer children. Hotta, Tsutomu: The aged society with volunteers

This book examines two ways of financing health care in sub-Saharan African countries: user fees and self-financing health insurance. User fees are emphasized because private, out-of-pocket expenditures for health account for more than 40 percent of total health expenditures in Africa. Self-financing health insurance is given prominence because this type of insurance enables many people to pool their resources so as to provide coverage for catastophic illness or injury. The authors conclude that implementing user fees and creating self-financing insurance systems will mobilize more resources for health care delivery and can also promote equity, improve economic efficiency and raise the quality of medical services. (DÜI-Hff)