01766nas a2200193   4500000000100000008004100001260004400042653001800086653005600104100002300160700001300183700001500196700001300211700001600224245014600240856007300386520108800459022002501547       2021                            d  bSpringer Science and Business Media LLC10aHealth Policy10aEconomics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)1 aNshakira-Rukundo E1 aMussa EC1 aNshakira N1 aGerber N1 avon Braun J00aImpact of community-based health insurance on utilisation of preventive health services in rural Uganda: a propensity score matching approach  uhttps://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10754-021-09294-6.pdf3 a<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The effect of voluntary health insurance on preventive health has received limited research attention in developing countries, even when they suffer immensely from easily preventable illnesses. This paper surveys households in rural south-western Uganda, which are geographically serviced by a voluntary Community-based health insurance scheme, and applied propensity score matching to assess the effect of enrolment on using mosquito nets and deworming under-five children. We find that enrolment in the scheme increased the probability of using a mosquito net by 26% and deworming by 18%. We postulate that these findings are partly mediated by information diffusion and social networks, financial protection, which gives households the capacity to save and use service more, especially curative services that are delivered alongside preventive services. This paper provides more insight into the broader effects of health insurance in developing countries, beyond financial protection and utilisation of hospital-based services.
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