Knowledge of health insurance benefits among male expatriates in Saudi Arabia
| Autor: | Abdulwahab A. Alkhamis |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Prescription drug Adolescent Expatriate Cross-sectional study MEDLINE Saudi Arabia lcsh:Medicine expatriates 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Nursing medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Medical prescription Insurance Health Descriptive statistics Health insurance knowledge business.industry 030503 health policy & services lcsh:R General Medicine Emigration and Immigration Private sector Stratified sampling Cross-Sectional Studies Knowledge Family medicine health insurance Original Article 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | Saudi Medical Journal, Vol 38, Iss 6, Pp 642-653 (2017) Saudi Medical Journal |
| ISSN: | 1658-3175 0379-5284 |
| Popis: | Objectives: To measure expatriates’ knowledge of health insurance benefits with respect to outpatient, inpatient, prescription drug, and dental services, and to link this knowledge to sociodemographic and employment characteristic . Methods: Cross-sectional, face-to-face interviews were conducted from March 2015 to February 2016 with a stratified random sample of 3,398 male insured expatriate workers in the private sector of Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Descriptive analysis, one-way ANOVA, and linear regression were used to interpret data. Data on knowledge of health insurance benefits was compiled by adding the scores of the 4 service category items (outpatient, inpatient, prescription drug, and dental services) to those of the 5 objective knowledge items on copayments. Results: More than 87% of the participants reported knowledge on their health insurance benefits coverage for outpatient, 62% for the inpatient, 86% for the prescription drug and 62% for the dental services. However, 7.5% knew the correct copayments for general practitioner, 64% for the outpatient (inclusive), 13% for the inpatient visits, 15% for the prescription drugs and 9.6% for the dental care. Most personal and job characteristics had associations with knowledge measures. A total of 55% of the overall knowledge variance was explained by the independent variables (R 2 =0.55), suggesting that other factors also influence knowledge. Conclusion: Expatriates’ knowledge of their health insurance benefits is very limited, which indicates the importance of developing a policy for increasing this knowledge among expatriates in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Med J 2017; Vol. 38 (6): 642-653 doi:10.15537/smj.2017.6.18177 How to cite this article: Alkhamis A. Knowledge of health insurance benefits among male expatriates in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Med J . 2017 Jun;38(6):642-653. doi: 10.15537/smj.2017.6.18177. |
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