Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Describes Findings in Health and Society (Is having private health insurance associated with less support for public healthcare? Evidence from the Norwegian NHS)

2019 JUN 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Health and Medicine - Health and Society. According to news reporting originating in Trondheim, Norway, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “The purpose of this study was to investigate whether increased uptake of private health insurance (PHI) in a traditionally NHS type system is likely to affect support for the public healthcare system. Using the Norwegian healthcare system as our case, and building on a survey among 7500 citizens, with 2688 respondents, we employed multivariate analysis to uncover whether the preferences for public health services are associated with having PHI, controlling for key predictors such as socio-economic background, self-rated health and perceived health service quality, as well as age and gender.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), “The basis for our analysis was the following two propositions related to the role of public healthcare, which the respondents were asked to score on a 5-point Likert scale (1=’totally disagree’, 5=’totally agree’): 1) ‘the responsibility of providing health services should mainly be public’, and 2) ‘the activity of private commercial actors should be limited’. The regression analyses showed that the willingness to increase the role of commercial private actors is positively associated with having a PHI.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “However, we found no relationship between holding a PHI and support for public provision of health services when other factors were controlled for.”

For more information on this research see: Is having private health insurance associated with less support for public healthcare? Evidence from the Norwegian NHS. Health Policy, 2019;():. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Health Policy - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/health-policy/)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting P.E. Martinussen, Dept. of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, .

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.05.003. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

(Our reports deliver fact-based news of research and discoveries from around the world.)