Background: Prepayments and risk pooling through social health insurance has been advocated by international … development organizations. Social health insurance is seen as a mechanism that helps mobilize resources for health, pool risk, and … provide more access to health care services for the poor. Hence Ghana implemented the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS …

mandatory social insurance for health entitled "ARCH". Methods: We analysed budget data and ARCH documents, and conducted four … to implementing the ARCH social insurance project: (i) the fiscal space is quite limited, there is a limited potential … insurance system are at the expense of a reduction in the financing of preventive and promotional primary healthcare services. …

Background: Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme has improved access to care, although equity and sustainability … issues remain. This study examined health insurance coverage, type of payment for health insurance and reasons for being … uninsured under the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana. Methods: The 2014 Ghana Demographic Health Survey datasets with …

Objective: To identify factors for healthcare utilization and to describe effect of Mutual Health Insurance on health … utilization. Conclusion: Enrolment to mutual health insurance increases healthcare utilization. Presence of illness in the … Health Insurance scheme should be targeted during escalating of healthcare utilization. …

Background: Health insurance is among the healthcare financing reforms proposed to increase the available healthcare …-based health insurance which mainly targets the very large rural agricultural sector and small and informal sector in urban … settings. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess the coverage of health insurance and its determinants in Ethiopia. Methods …

fees was made compulsory for the statutory health insurance companies and statutory requirements were imposed on the … evaluate to what extent the health insurance companies promote the increasing of vaccination coverage rate today and what … "prophylactic vaccinations" we have examined the websites of 68 statutory health insurance companies. We have assessed the attitude …

%). Inclusion of these workers in health insurance is a big challenge. Among other barriers, the “literacy gap” for health insurance …” is a reason for the low insurance uptake in Bangladesh. The aim of this study is, therefore, to assess the impact of an … educational intervention on willingness-to-pay (WTP) for health insurance among informal sector workers in urban Bangladesh …

Background: Utilization of healthcare in Ghana’s novel National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has been increasing …