Social Risk Management Strategies and Health Risk Exposure

Insights and Evidence from Ghana and Malawi

• Author(s): Gerald Leppert,
• Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
• Pages: 336
• ISBN_10: 3643906420
  ISBN_13: 9783643906427
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Africa / South / General , Medical / Health Risk Assessment , Medical / Public Health , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries ,

Description:... Risk exposure is a major cause of poverty, deprivation and persistent vulnerability worldwide. This volume analyzes individuals' and households' responses to a variety of risks, with an emphasis on health risks. The study adapts the Social Risk Management (SRM) conceptual framework and extends it considerably for academic inquiry. Using household data from Ghana and Malawi, empirical evidence is provided on the complex relationship between high risk exposure and the application of proactive and reactive SRM strategies (incl. health insurance), showing their specific contributions to risk management.