Impact evaluation of a social protection programme paired with fee waivers on enrolment in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme.

Autor:	Palermo TM; Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University at Buffalo - The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA tiapaler@buffalo.edu., Valli E; Social and Economic Policy Unit, United Nations Children's Fund, Office of Research Innocenti, Firenze, Italy., Ángeles-Tagliaferro G; UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.; Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA., de Milliano M; UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA., Adamba C; School of Education and Leadership, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana., Spadafora TR; Social Policy and Evidence Section, United Nations Children's Fund, Accra, Ghana., Barrington C; UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.; Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	BMJ open [BMJ Open] 2019 Nov 04; Vol. 9 (11), pp. e028726. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Nov 04.
DOI:	10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028726
Abstrakt:	Objectives: The study aimed to understand the impact of integrating a fee waiver for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) with Ghana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) 1000 cash transfer programme on health insurance enrolment. Setting: The study was conducted in five districts implementing Ghana's LEAP 1000 programme in Northern and Upper East Regions. Participants: Women, from LEAP households, who were pregnant or had a child under 1 year and who participated in baseline and 24-month surveys (2497) participated in the study. Intervention: LEAP provides bimonthly cash payments combined with a premium waiver for enrolment in NHIS to extremely poor households with orphans and vulnerable children, elderly with no productive capacity and persons with severe disability. LEAP 1000, the focus of the current evaluation, expanded eligibility in 2015 to those households with a pregnant woman or child under the age of 12 months. Over the course of the study, households received 13 payments. Primary and Secondary Outcome Measures: Primary outcomes included current and ever enrolment in NHIS. Secondary outcomes include reasons for not enrolling in NHIS. We conducted a mixed-methods impact evaluation using a quasi-experimental design and estimated intent-to-treat impacts on health insurance enrolment among children and adults. Longitudinal qualitative interviews were conducted with an embedded cohort of 20 women and analysed using systematic thematic coding. Results: Current enrolment increased among the treatment group from 37.4% to 46.6% (n=5523) and decreased among the comparison group from 37.3% to 33.3% (n=4804), resulting in programme impacts of 14 (95% CI 7.8 to 20.5) to 15 (95% CI 10.6 to 18.5) percentage points for current NHIS enrolment. Common reasons for not enrolling were fees and travel. Conclusion: While impacts on NHIS enrolment were significant, gaps remain to maximise the potential of integrated programming. NHIS and LEAP could be better streamlined to ensure poor households fully benefit from both services, in a further step towards integrated social protection. Trial Registration Number: RIDIE-STUDY-ID-55942496d53af. Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared. (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.)
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