Protocol - Do social health insurance schemes in developing country settings improve health outcomes and reduce the impoverishing effect of healthcare payments for the poorest people?

This is the protocol for a systematic review

From:: Department for International Development
Published: 1 January 2010

Document Type:: Protocol
Theme:: Health
Authors:: Taylor, F., Acharya, A., Masset, E., Burke, M., Tharyan, P., Vellakkal, S., Kalita, S., Satija, A., Ebrahim, S.

Abstract

This is the protocol for a systematic review which will examine how well the impacts of insurance schemes are assessed. It will assess changes with the introduction of social health insurance in:
1. the health status of patients using the health services provided.
2. out of pocket expenditure per episode of illness relative to income and by income class (catastrophic health spending).
3. the utilisation of a health service use.

The protocol provides background information and details of the methods to be used.

There was an article published on this systematic review in the World Bank Research Observer in 2012

Citation

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK, 27 pp.