Community-based study on renew or dropout status of social health insurance program in Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Chitwan

Autor: Chandan Subedi, Eak Narayan Paudel, Subash Koirala, Harishchandra Ghimire, Amrita Paudel
Rok vydání: 2021
Zdroj: Nepalese Journal of Insurance and Social Security. 4:65-72
ISSN: 2738-9693
2565-4942
DOI: 10.3126/njiss.v4i1.42355
Popis: Health insurance is emerging as the most preferred form of the health financing mechanism. Higher dropout puts a threat to governments target (Social health security program) of 100% enrolment by 2030.This study aimed at accessing the factors associated with current SHI status (renew or dropout) in Bharatpur metropolitan city. The community based descriptive cross-sectional study using face to face interview was carried out in Bharatpur Metropolitan city, Chitwan. Total 342 household heads that have enrolled in Social Health Insurance for past year are considered as a sample to describe the Renewal status among SHI Enroll household. We used Pearson’s chi-square test to investigate the effect of some explanatory variables on renewal and dropout status of SHI. Among 342 household enroll SHI scheme, there were 203(59.4%) Renewed for next year and 139(40.6%) household dropout SHI Scheme. Results shows that current status of SHI (renew or dropout) differ significantly with Sex of household head (P< 0.01), education status (P
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