| Title |
The financial protection effect of Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: evidence from a study in two rural districts
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|---|---|
| Published in |
International Journal for Equity in Health, January 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1475-9276-10-4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ha TH Nguyen, Yogesh Rajkotia, Hong Wang |
| Abstract |
One of the key functions of health insurance is to provide financial protection against high costs of health care, yet evidence of such protection from developing countries has been inconsistent. The current study uses the case of Ghana to contribute to the evidence pool about insurance's financial protection effects. It evaluates the impact of the country's National Health Insurance Scheme on households' out-of-pocket spending and catastrophic health expenditure. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 332 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 4 | 1% |
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 319 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 81 | 24% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 46 | 14% |
| Researcher | 41 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 28 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 21 | 6% |
| Other | 55 | 17% |
| Unknown | 60 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 69 | 21% |
| Social Sciences | 52 | 16% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 42 | 13% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 38 | 11% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 19 | 6% |
| Other | 44 | 13% |
| Unknown | 68 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
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