Aware of this, many donors and governments are beginning to embrace longer-term and strategic support programs; such sector-wide approaches have been seen to be successful in countries such as Bangladesh, Ghana, and Pakistan. Pooling Resources Fund pooling is the sharing of risk between ...
They found a positive effect of an insurance-related act on the productivity of the insurance industry in Ghana. However, several issues need to be addressed in the existing insurance literature. First, the measurement of classic cost efficiency, revenue efficiency, and profit efficiency all need ...
After learning from the pilot programme, a separate Health Insurance Act (HIA) was enacted to govern the programme. Thus, in 2017, the parliament endorsed the HIA, which replaced the SHSDC with the Health Insurance Board (HIB) [6]. The roles of HIB include raising revenue, pooling funds f...
In the financial system, the customers’ willingness to share their data is pivotal, because otherwise, banks and insurance companies are powerless to
Health insurance coverage, type of payment for health insurance, and reasons for not being insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana. Health Econ Rev. 2019;9:39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-019-0255-5. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar STATA. (2023). ...
Catastrophic healthcare expenditure (CHE) can plunge households into poverty. Faced with CHE, the question that becomes relevant is how long it will take the household to exit CHE. This paper examines the effect of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on exit time from CHE. The...
This study analysed co-operative members’ willingness to pay (WTP) for health insurance. The social capital theory was adopted to analyse the mediation role of trust issues on other variables determining co-operative members’ WTP for health insurance.
Ghana’s National Insurance Commission (NIC) has announced that all goods brought into the country can now be locally insured, after the signing of the Marine Cargo Insurance Protocol on 23 December 2020.
Social movements and health insurance: a critical evaluation of voluntary, non-profit insurance schemes with case studies from Ghana and Cameroon Soc. Sci. Med., 48 (1999), pp. 881-896, 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00390-6 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Atim, 1998 C. Atim The...
Refusal to enrol in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: is affordability the problem? International Journal for Equity in Health, 14 (2) (2015) Google Scholar Kutzin, 2012 J. Kutzin Anything goes on the path to universal health coverage? No Bulletin of the World Health Organization, ...