Health Insurance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review of the Methods Used to Evaluate its Impact.

ABSTRACT: We conducted a scoping review with the objective of synthesizing available literature and mapping what designs and methods have been used to evaluate health insurance reforms in sub-Saharan Africa. We systematically searched for scientific and grey literature in English and French published between 1980 and 2017 using a combination of three key concepts: "Insurance" and "Impact evaluation" and "sub-Saharan Africa". The search led to the inclusion of 66 articles with half of the studies pertaining to the evaluation of National Health Insurance schemes, especially the Ghanaian one, and one quarter pertaining to Community-Based Health Insurance and Mutual Health Organization schemes. Sixty-one out of the 66 studies (92%) included were quantitative studies, while only five (8%) were defined as

SUBMITTER: Degroote S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7716930 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature