University of Bonn Reports Findings in Health Economics (Impact of community-based health insurance on utilisation of preventive health services in rural Uganda: a propensity score matching approach)

2021 FEB 23 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on Economics - Health Economics is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating in Bonn, Germany, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “The effect of voluntary health insurance on preventive health has received limited research attention in developing countries, even when they suffer immensely from easily preventable illnesses. This paper surveys households in rural south-western Uganda, which are geographically serviced by a voluntary Community-based health insurance scheme, and applied propensity score matching to assess the effect of enrolment on using mosquito nets and deworming under-five children.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Bonn, “We find that enrolment in the scheme increased the probability of using a mosquito net by 26% and deworming by 18%. We postulate that these findings are partly mediated by information diffusion and social networks, financial protection, which gives households the capacity to save and use service more, especially curative services that are delivered alongside preventive services.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “This paper provides more insight into the broader effects of health insurance in developing countries, beyond financial protection and utilisation of hospital-based services.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Impact of community-based health insurance on utilisation of preventive health services in rural Uganda: a propensity score matching approach. International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2021. International Journal of Health Economics and Management can be contacted at: Springer-Verlag, One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, Ny, United States.

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Emmanuel Nshakira-Rukundo, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Genscherallee 3, 53117, Bonn, Germany. Additional authors for this research include Essa Chanie Mussa, Nathan Nshakira, Nicolas Gerber and Joachim von Braun.

The publisher of the International Journal of Health Economics and Management can be contacted at: Springer-Verlag, One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, Ny, United States.

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