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The Effect of Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme on Health Care Utilisation

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The Effect of Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme on Health Care Utilisation

Auteurs : N J Blanchet [États-Unis] ; G. Fink [États-Unis] ; I. Osei-Akoto [Ghana]

Source :

Ghana Medical Journal [ 0016-9560 ] ; 2012.

RBID : PMC:3426378

Abstract

SummaryObjectives

The study investigates the effect of Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on health care utilisation.

Methods

We provide a short history of health insurance in Ghana, and briefly discuss general patterns of enrolment in Ghana as well as in Accra in a first step. In a second step, we use data from the Women's Health Study of Accra wave II to evaluate the effect of insurance on health seeking behaviour using propensity score matching.

Results

We find that on average individuals enrolled in the insurance scheme are significantly more likely to obtain prescriptions, visit clinics and seek formal health care when sick.

Conclusion

These results suggest that the government's objective to increase access to the formal health care sector through health insurance has at least partially been achieved.

Url:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426378

PubMed: 22942455
PubMed Central: 3426378

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