Health insurance and child mortality in rural Burkina Faso.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Micro health insurance schemes have been implemented across developing countries as a means of facilitating access to modern medical care, with the ultimate aim of improving health. This effect, however, has not been explored sufficiently.

Objective

We investigated the effect of enrolment into community-based health insurance on mortality in children under 5 years of age in a health and demographic surveillance system in Nouna, Burkina Faso.

Design

We analysed the effect of health insurance enrolment on child mortality with a Cox regression model. We adjusted for variables that we found to be related to the enrolment in health insurance in a preceding analysis.

Results

Based on the analysis of 33,500 children, the risk of mortality was 46% lower in c

SUBMITTER: Schoeps A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4414785 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature