A step closer towards achieving universal health coverage: the role of gender in enrolment in health insurance in India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is limited understanding of how universal health coverage (UHC) schemes such as publicly-funded health insurance (PFHI) benefit women as compared to men. Many of these schemes are gender-neutral in design but given the existing gender inequalities in many societies, their benefits may not be similar for women and men. We contribute to the evidence by conducting a gender analysis of the enrolment of individuals and households in India's national PFHI scheme, Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY).

Methods

We used data from a cross-sectional household survey on RSBY eligible families across eight Indian states and studied different outcome variables at both the individual and household levels to compare enrolment among women and men. We applied multivariate log

SUBMITTER: Ziegler S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10821565 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature