Health is Wealth: How Low-Income People Finance Health Care

This study undertakes extensive background and secondary data searches (physical and internet-based) in order to identify data and ensure that the health financing product would be developed on the basis of the latest thinking/information as the first step to developing a low-cost health financing package for low-income people. The paper explores low income people's health needs and health finance/management mechanisms. The tools used were Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA) and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) adapted from the MicroSave-Africa approach to "Market Research for MicroFinance".