Findings from University of Toronto Advance Knowledge in Health Services (The Role of Health Policy and Systems in the Uptake of Community-Based Health Insurance Schemes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Narrative Review): Health and Medicine – Health Services

2023 MAY 15 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Researchers detail new data in health services. According to news reporting originating from Toronto, Canada, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “This study explores how health policies and systems can affect voluntary uptake of community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).”

Funders for this research include Reach Alliance.

The news journalists obtained a quote from the research from University of Toronto: “A narrative review was conducted involving searches of 10 databases (Medline, Global Index Medicus, Cumulative Index to Nursing, and Allied Health Literature, Health Systems Evidence, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, PsycINFO, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, EconLit, Bibliography of Asian Studies, and Africa Wide Information) across the social sciences, economics, and medical sciences. A total of 8107 articles were identified through the database searches, 12 of which were retained for analysis and narrative synthesis after 2 stages of screening. Our findings suggest that in the absence of directly subsidizing CBHI schemes by governments in LMICs, government policies can nonetheless promote voluntary uptake of CBHIs through intentional actions in 3 key areas: (a) improving quality of care, (b) providing a regulatory framework that integrates CBHIs into the national health system and its goals, and © leveraging administrative and managerial capacity to facilitate enrollment.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The findings of this study highlight several considerations for CBHI planners and governments in LMICs to promote voluntary enrollment in CBHIs. Governments can effectively extend their outreach toward marginalized and vulnerable populations that are excluded from social protection by formulating supportive regulatory, policy, and administrative provisions that enhance voluntary uptake of CBHI schemes.”

For more information on this research see: The Role of Health Policy and Systems in the Uptake of Community-Based Health Insurance Schemes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Narrative Review. Health Services Insights, 2023,16. (Health Services Insights - http://insights.sagepub.com/journal-health-services-insights-j117). The publisher for Health Services Insights is SAGE Publications.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/11786329231172675.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Amika Shah, Reach Alliance, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Additional authors for this research include Samrawit Lemma, Chelsea Tao, Joseph Wong.

ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. The following is ORCID information for the author of this research: Amika Shah (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8615-2683).

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