Illness Mapping: A Time and Cost Effective Method to Estimate Health Care Data Needed to Establish Community-based Health Insurance

David Dror

Chapter 10 in Financing Micro Health Insurance:Theory, Methods and Evidence, 2018, pp 189-202 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The following sections are included:This chapter describes a cheaper and faster method to derive quantitative estimates of health care events through qualitative approaches.Intervention involved small group discussions with 18 women’s and 17 men’s groups, and a household survey conducted in 50 villages with 1,000 randomly selected households (6,656 individuals).The IM method of sourcing local data represented a reduction of 59% in work-days, implying lesser time and costs when compared to a household survey.

Keywords: Microinsurance; Micro Health Insurance; Health Insurance; Community-Based Health Insurance; CBHI; Demand for Health Insurance; Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance; Microinsurance Package Design; Implementation of CBHI; Business Case of Microinsurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I13 I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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