Development of the Kisiizi hospital health insurance scheme: lessons learned and implications for universal health coverage. ( Baine, Kakama and Mugume, 2018)

  1. Kisiizi hospital got a stable source of funding and reduced debt burden.
  2. Insured members enjoyed benefits; protection against catastrophic health spending, impoverishment, and easy access to quality health care

Impact of community based health insurance on utilization of preventive health services in rural Uganda: a propensity score matching approach (Rukundo, 2018)

  1. Enrollment in the scheme increased the probability of using a mosquito net by 26% and deworming by 18% in children under 5 years of age.

Development of the Kisiizi hospital health insurance scheme: lessons learned and implications for universal health coverage. ( Baine, Kakama and Mugume, 2018)

  1. Household’s socioeconomic welfare is strongly associated with community-based health insurance (CBHI) enrollment and renewing decisions in rural Uganda.
  2. It is important to consider community perceptions on health insurance to improve trust in insurance, enrolment, and renewing.

How a Ugandan hospital delivers health insurance through burial groups (The Economist, 2020)

  1. The insured are healthier, their finances too.

Impact of Community health insurance on childhood stunting. Evidence from rural Uganda. (Nshakira-rukundo, 2020)

  1. One year of a household’s participation in community-based health insurance was associated with a 4.3 percentage point less probability of stunting. Children of two years or less dominated the effect but there were also statistically significant benefits of enrolling in insurance after a child’s birth.

Baine, S. O., Kakama, A. and Mugume, M. (2018) ‘Development of the Kisiizi hospital health insurance scheme : lessons learned and implications for universal health coverage’. BMC Health Services Research, pp. 1–9.

Nshakira-rukundo, E. et al. (2019) ‘Original Article Determinants of Enrolment and Renewing of Community- Based Health Insurance in Households With Under-5 Children in Rural South-Western Uganda’, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 8(10), pp. 593–606. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2019.49.

Nshakira-rukundo, E. et al. (2020) ‘Social Science & Medicine Impact of voluntary community-based health insurance on child stunting : Evidence from rural Uganda’, Social Science & Medicine. Elsevier, 245(February 2019), p. 112738. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112738.

Rukundo, E. N. (2018) ‘Effects of Community-based Health Insurance on Child Health Outcomes and Utilisation of Preventive Health Services : Evidence from Rural’.

The Economist (2020) ‘The Economist January 30’, p. 2020.

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