What is it about?
This study used data from the 2014 and 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys with a sample of 6319 women and employed multinomial endogenous treatment effects models with Conditional Mixed Process estimator to examine the effects of national health insurance scheme on the choice delivery facility in Ghana. It was found that NHIS has varied effects on the use of delivery services across service providers in the health system.
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Why is it important?
This study categorizes delivery service providers into four categories hence applied multinomial techniques and thereby tease out the effects of NHIS on delivery care from different sources and at the same time accounts for unobserved endogeneity
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has solved a problem I identified long time ago and in solving it I got in contact with renowned researchers such as David Roodman.
Dr Richard Agbanyo
University of Professional Studies
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This page is a summary of: National health insurance and the choice of delivery facility among expectant mothers in Ghana, International Journal of Health Economics and Management, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10754-020-09288-w.
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