Reducing children's malnutrition by increasing mothers' health insurance coverage: A focus on stunting and underweight across 32 sub-Saharan African countries

RE Kofinti, I Koomson, JA Paintsil, EK Ameyaw - Economic Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the potential role of a mother's health insurance coverage in enhancing her
children's health and well-being, research examining its impact on children's nutritional …

Health insurance coverage and access to child and maternal health services in West Africa: a systematic scoping review

J Dadjo, O Omonaiye, S Yaya - International health, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background According to the United Nations, the third Sustainable Development
Goal,'Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-Being at All Ages', set numerous targets on …

[HTML][HTML] Maternal healthcare insurance ownership and service utilisation in Ghana: analysis of Ghana demographic and health survey

S Yaya, F Da, R Wang, S Tang, B Ghose - Plos one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Objectives Previous studies have attempted to assess the role of health insurance on health
care utilization in African settings. However, there is limited evidence on the effects of health …

[HTML][HTML] Level of completion along continuum of care for maternal, newborn and child health services and factors associated with it among women in India: a …

A Kothavale, T Meher - BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2021 - Springer
Background India, being a developing country, presents a disquiet picture of maternal and
neonatal mortality and morbidity. The majority of maternal and neonatal mortality could be …

Towards achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 3: multilevel analyses of demographic and health survey data on health insurance coverage and maternal …

H Amu, RG Aboagye, RK Dowou… - International …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Improving maternal health and achieving universal health coverage (UHC) are
important expectations in the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda. While …

[HTML][HTML] Health insurance in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of the methods used to evaluate its impact

S Degroote, V Ridde, M De Allegri - Applied Health Economics and Health …, 2020 - Springer
We conducted a scoping review with the objective of synthesizing available literature and
mapping what designs and methods have been used to evaluate health insurance reforms …

[HTML][HTML] National health insurance subscription and maternal healthcare utilisation across mothers' wealth status in Ghana

EK Ameyaw, RE Kofinti, F Appiah - Health Economics Review, 2017 - Springer
Introduction This study is against the backdrop that despite the forty-nine percent decline in
Maternal Mortality Rate in Ghana, the situation still remains high averaging 319 per 100,000 …

[HTML][HTML] Incidence and predictors of under-five mortality in East Africa using multilevel Weibull regression modeling

GA Tesema, AB Teshale, ZT Tessema - Archives of Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background In 2017, an estimated 5.3 million under-five children died annually in
Sub-Saharan African countries, more than half of those deaths occurred in East Africa …

Does health insurance improve health for all? Heterogeneous effects on children in Ghana

L Bagnoli - World development, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper assesses whether health insurance is successful in improving health. More
specifically, it investigates whether a same health insurance scheme has differentiated …

[HTML][HTML] Socio-cultural barriers to the delivery and utilisation of child healthcare services in rural Ghana: a qualitative study

FK Nyande, E Ricks, M Williams… - BMC health services …, 2022 - Springer
Background Over half of global deaths among children under five years of age occur in sub-
Saharan Africa. Prompt and consistent access to and utilisation of child healthcare services …