ArticleInternational journal of health care finance and economics2014
The effect of social health insurance on prenatal care: the case of Ghana.
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- Toward mandatory health insurance in low-income countries? An analysis of claims data in Tanzania.Health economics · 2022Article
- The Comparison of Various Types of Health Insurance in the Healthcare Utilization, Costs and Catastrophic Health Expenditures among Middle-Aged and Older Chinese Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Universal health insurance in Africa: a narrative review of the literature on institutional models.BMJ global health · 2022Review
- National health insurance and the choice of delivery facility among expectant mothers in Ghana.International journal of health economics and management · 2021Article
- Health Insurance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review of the Methods Used to Evaluate its Impact.Applied health economics and health policy · 2020Article
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- Prenatal care utilization in Zimbabwe: Examining the role of community-level factors.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2017Article
- Maternal and neonatal health impact of obstetrical risk insurance scheme in Mauritania: a quasi experimental before-and-after study.Health policy and planning · 2017Article
- Health financing policies in Sub-Saharan Africa: government ownership or donors' influence? A scoping review of policymaking processes.Global health research and policy · 2017Article
- The effect of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on health service delivery in mission facilities in Ghana: a retrospective study.Globalization and health · 2016Article
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Abstract
Many developing countries have introduced social health insurance programs to help address two of the United Nations' millennium development goals-reducing infant mortality and improving maternal health outcomes. By making modern health care more accessible and affordable, policymakers hope that more women will seek prenatal care and thereby improve health outcomes. This paper studies how Ghana's social health insurance program affects prenatal care use and out-of-pocket expenditures, using the two-part model to model prenatal care expenditures. We test whether Ghana's social health insurance improved prenatal care use, reduced out-of-pocket expenditures, and increased the number of prenatal care visits. District-level differences in the timing of implementation provide exogenous variation in access to health insurance, and therefore strong identification. Those with access to social health insurance have a higher probability of receiving care, a higher number of prenatal care visits, and lower out-of-pocket expenditures conditional on spending on care.
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