Patient Satisfaction with Primary Health Care – A Comparison between the Insured and Non-Insured under the National Health Insurance Policy in Ghana

Insured Californians report high satisfaction with health care.

Health care under French national health insurance.

Several elements of the French health system--the predominance of office-based medical practice, the mix of private and public hospitals, the use of patient cost sharing, direct payment of physicians by patients, and financing derived from payroll taxes--closely resemble aspects of the U.S. health system. There are four major differences between the two systems: the French system covers more th...

Self-insured health plans

Nationwide, 8 percent of all employment-related health plans were self-insured in 1984, which translates into more than 175,000 self-insured plans according to our latest study of independent health plans. The propensity of an organization to self-insure differs primarily by its size, with large establishments more likely to self-insure. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the self-insured b...

Preferred Primary Healthcare Provider Choice Among Insured Persons in Ashanti Region, Ghana

Background In early 2012, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) members in Ashanti Region were allowed to choose their own primary healthcare providers. This paper investigates the factors that enrolees in the Ashanti Region considered in choosing preferred primary healthcare providers (PPPs) and direction of association of such factors with the choice of PPP.   Methods Using a cross-sectiona...

Treatment-Seeking Behaviour and Social Health Insurance in Africa: The Case of Ghana Under the National Health Insurance Scheme

Health insurance is attracting more and more attention as a means for improving health care utilization and protecting households against impoverishment from out-of-pocket expenditures. Currently about 52 percent of the resources for financing health care services come from out of pocket sources or user fees in Africa. Therefore, Ghana serves as in interesting case study as it has successfully ...