Center for Research Researchers Report on Findings in Global Health (Developing and implementing National Health Insurance: learnings from the first try in Benin): Health and Medicine – Global Health

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2022 DEC 01 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Business Daily -- A new study on global health is now available. According to news reporting out of Cotonou, Benin, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “We used a case study design, framed by the policy triangle of Walt and Gilson. We collected data through document review, quantitative data extraction from routine information, and interviews with 20 key informants.”

Our news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Center for Research: “We performed a content analysis using both complementarily deductive and inductive analysis. This study confirms the keen interest for national health insurance scheme in Benin among various stakeholders. Compared with user fee exemption policies, it is considered as more sustainable, with a more reliable financing, and a greater likelihood to facilitate population’s access to quality healthcare without financial hardships. Exempting the poor from paying health insurance premiums was however considered as an equitable mean to facilitate the extension of the health insurance to informal sector workers. The whole arrangements failed to deliver appropriate skills, tools, coordination and incentives to drive the policy implementers to make individual and organisational changes necessary to adjust to the objectives and values of the reform. These deficiencies compromised the implementation fidelity with unintended effects such as low subscription rate, low services utilisation and sustainability threats.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Supporting countries in documenting policy processes will ease learning across their tries for progressing towards Universal Health Coverage, as more than one try will be necessary.”

For more information on this research see: Developing and implementing National Health Insurance: learnings from the first try in Benin. BMJ Global Health, 2022,7(11). (BMJ Global Health - http://gh.bmj.com/). The publisher for BMJ Global Health is BMJ Publishing Group.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009027.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Kefilath Bello, Center for Research en Reproduction Humaine et en Demographie, Cotonou, Benin. Additional authors for this research include Jean-Paul Dossou, Hashim Hounkpatin, Hilaire Gbodja Houeninvo.