ArticleHealth economics review2022
Analysis on the equity differential on household healthcare financing in developing countries: empirical evidence from Tanzania, East Africa.
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- Determinants of households' willingness to pay for health insurance in Burkina Faso.Health economics review · 2024Article
- Instrumental variable approach on analyzing risk factors associated with noncommunicable disease prevalence in Tanzania: A nonexperimental design.Health science reports · 2023Article
- Equity in the public social healthcare protection in Tanzania: does it matter on household healthcare financing?International journal for equity in health · 2023Article
- Out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure in emerging economies: Evidence from panel data analysis.The journal of medicine accessArticle
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backgroundAchieving equity in healthcare services has been a global priority. According to the literature, a slew of initiatives aimed at increasing household equity in healthcare financing have exacerbated the problem, making it hard for most developing countries to understand the real cause of the problem.
methodThe non-experimental research design has been used to explore the Tanzania Panel Survey (NPS) data 2019/2020, to investigate equity differential in household healthcare financing in Tanzania by the use of conventional instrumental variable methods of Two-stage and Three-stage least square methods
resultsDespite the global agenda of universal health coverage, this paper reveals that 86 percent of Tanzania lacks health insurance with a high degree of inequitable distribution of health facilities as 71.54 percent of the population is in rural areas, yet these areas have poor health systems compared to urban ones. These disparities increase pressure on household healthcare financing and widen the inequity and equality gaps simultaneously. Additionally, a household's income, education, health care waivers, out-of-pocket expenditure, and user fees have been found to have a significant impact on household equity in healthcare financing.
conclusionTo reverse the situation and increase equity in household healthcare financing in most developing countries, this paper suggests that an adequate pooling system should be used to allow more people to be covered by medical prepayment programs, and the donor-funded programs in developing countries should focus on health sector infrastructure development and not the capacity building.
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