The effect of Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme on health care utilisation.
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: OBJECTIVES: 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.
Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
Authors: N J Blanchet, G Fink, I Osei-Akoto
Institution: Harvard University
Language: English
Subfield: Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2108970446