Corruption and informal sector households' participation in health insurance in Sierra Leone.

ABSTRACT: Lack of credibility and trust in fund managers has been highlighted as one of the key reasons why people do not join health insurance schemes in low- and middle-income countries, especially in Africa. This work investigates the impact of corruption on households' willingness to participate and pay for health insurance in Sierra Leone. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) method was used to elicit households' willingness to participate in a health insurance scheme with different attributes. The data were collected from 1458 representative households working in the informal sector of the Northern and Western regions. We explore the relationship between household characteristics and experienced (respectively, perceived) corruption with binary and ordered logit models. We use a Mixed Logit model

SUBMITTER: Jofre-Bonet M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10101380 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature