Identification of poor households for premium exemptions in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme: Empirical analysis of three strategies

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1544-1552

  Aryeetey, Genevieve Cecilia ^a,b   Jehu Appiah, Caroline ^a,c   Spaan, Ernst ^a   D'Exelle, Ben ^d   Agyepong, Irene ^e   Baltussen, Rob ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^c Ministry of Lands Forestry and Mines Ghana   (Ghana)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Exemptions; Ghana; Health insurance; Households; Identification; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LOW INCOME HOUSING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION; POLICY MAKING; POVERTY; RURAL AREA; SURVEY; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; GHANA; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEANS TESTING; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTICIPATORY WEALTH RANKING; POOR HOUSEHOLD; POVERTY; PROXY MEANS TESTING; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGED; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

GHANA;

EID: 78649611029     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02663.x     Document Type: Article

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