Reassessing the demand for community-based health insurance in rural Senegal: Geographic distance and awareness.

ABSTRACT: Limited access to information is one of the main health insurance market imperfections in developing countries. Differential access to information may determine individuals' awareness of health insurance schemes, thereby influencing their probability of enrollment. Relying on primary data collected in 2019-2020 in rural Senegal, we estimate the uptake of community-based health insurance using a Heckman-type model to correct for awareness-based sample selection bias. Besides showing that health insurance awareness is a precondition for effective enrollment in community-based health insurance schemes, we also bring new evidence on the roles which geographic factors and individual risk preference play in health insurance uptake by rural dwellers. We show that geographic distance prevents indi

SUBMITTER: Bousmah MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8608590 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature