The feasibility analysis of integrating community-based health insurance schemes into the national health insurance scheme in Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Uganda has a draft National Health Insurance Bill for the establishment of a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The proposed health insurance scheme is to pool resources, where the rich will subsidize the treatment of the poor, the healthy will subsidize the treatment of the sick, and the young will subsidize the treatment of the elderly. However, there is still a lack of evidence on how the existing community-based health insurance schemes (CBHIS) can fit within the proposed national scheme. Thus, this study aimed at determining the feasibility of integrating the existing community-based health financing schemes into the proposed National Health Insurance Scheme.

Methods

In this study, we utilized a multiple-case study design involving mixed methods. The ca

SUBMITTER: Namyalo PK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10104299 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature