Impact of Community-based Health Insurance in Rural India on Self-Medication and Financial Protection of the Insured

David Dror

Chapter 23 in Financing Micro Health Insurance:Theory, Methods and Evidence, 2018, pp 457-472 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The following sections are included:A baseline survey was conducted in March–May 2010 with a sample of 3,685 households; three years later, an endline survey was conducted when 3,307 households of the households included in the baseline were revisited.For each community-based health insurance (CBHI), data were sourced from MIS maintained by the Micro Insurance Academy (MIA).Impact of CBHI was quantified using both difference-in-difference (DiD) and conditional DiD.

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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