Study Findings from P. Singh et al Broaden Understanding of Public Health (A qualitative comparative analysis of healthcare Supply-Demand side barriers under the publicly funded health insurance scheme in India)

2020 MAR 31 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Health and Medicine - Public Health have been published. According to news reporting from Delhi, India, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “India recently launched Ayushman Bharat -National Health Protection Mission -an upgraded version of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY), which is projected as world’s largest public insurance scheme by numbers. The new scheme can certainly draw learning from the former (RSBY) to ensure better reach and success.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research, “RSBY has been extensively analyzed for supply-side barriers but sparsely for demand and supply-side barriers simultaneously. Through this study, authors intend to determine causality as well as configurations (pathways) of demand and supply barriers that make beneficiary vulnerable even under the scheme. The study explores the interaction of barriers that lead to patient dis/satisfaction, overcharging for a medical procedure and high disease severity among beneficiaries. The study uses RSBY insurance claim records from 2013 to 2015 backed up by posthospitalization survey of the state of Chhattisgarh, India. It employs a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to determine causality and configuration (path-way) of parameters leading to the outcome. Provision of medicine emerges as a necessary condition for patient satisfaction. Waiting time did not appear as a necessary parameter of satisfaction. Overcharging the cashless card in case of minor surgical procedures is observed irrespective of beneficiaries’ education and occupation status. Urban male and rural female appear to bear high disease severity.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Results have implication for policymakers and implementors to recognize the segment that remains vulnerable under the scheme and gain insights on the parameters of patient satisfaction.”

For more information on this research see: A qualitative comparative analysis of healthcare Supply-Demand side barriers under the publicly funded health insurance scheme in India. Indian Journal of Public Health, 2019;63(4):318.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting P. Singh, Country Manager, Oxford Policy Management, Delhi, India. Additional authors for this research include N. Saxena and A. Mishra.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.4103/ijph.ijph_409_18. 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.

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