Introduction Tertiary Institutions' Social Health Insurance Programme (TISHIP) is an arm of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), which provides quality healthcare to students in Nigerian higher institutions. The success of this scheme depends on the students' knowledge and awareness of its existence as well as the level of its implementation by healthcare providers. This study was there...

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Out of Pocket Expenditure has always been a primary means financing health care service in Nepal. National Health Insurance Scheme ensures universal coverage by addressing the unregulated out-of-pocket spending and providing quality service.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> A descriptive c...

Background: Awareness of your rights and responsibilities as an enrollee the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is key to fully accessing all benefits scheme. It also helps when giving a valid assessment healthcare services received through This study has assessed level awareness NHIS enrolled staff from Federal Colleges Education in North Central Nigeria. Methods: The was descriptive cros...

PURPOSE The National Health Insurance Service-Health Screening Cohort (NHIS-HEALS) is a cohort of participants who participated in health screening programmes provided by the NHIS in the Republic of Korea. The NHIS constructed the NHIS-HEALS cohort database in 2015. The purpose of this cohort is to offer relevant and useful data for health researchers, especially in the field of non-communicabl...

BACKGROUND Uganda is proposing introduction of the National Health Insurance scheme (NHIS) in a phased manner with the view to obtaining additional funding for the health sector and promoting financial risk protection. In this paper, we have assessed the proposed NHIS from an equity perspective, exploring the extent to which NHIS would improve existing disparities in the health sector. METHOD...

Introduction: Several Nigerians are completely denied access to adequate health care because of cultural, temporal and financial factors with inequity. Objectives: To ascertain the household perceptions, willingness to pay, benefit package preferences, and health systems readiness for Insurance Scheme. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 400 heads of households and 43 health workers in Enugu, S...

BACKGROUND Linking computerized health insurance records with routinely collected survey data is becoming increasingly popular in health services research. However, if consent is not universal, the requirement of written informed consent may introduce a number of research biases. The participants of a national health survey in Taiwan were asked to have their questionnaire results linked to thei...

BACKGROUND Despite universal population coverage and equity being a stated policy goal of its NHIS, over a decade since passage of the first law in 2003, Ghana continues to struggle with how to attain it. The predominantly (about 70 %) tax funded NHIS currently has active enrolment hovering around 40 % of the population. This study explored in-depth enablers and barriers to enrolment in the NHI...

ObjectivesMost breast cancer cases in Ghana occur premenopausal and perimenopausal (PPM) women. This study evaluated the cost-effectiveness of tamoxifen compared with no for adjuvant treatment hormone receptor–positive (HR+) early (EBC) among PPM Ghanaian women.MethodsA Markov model was constructed to synthesize data on effectiveness, costs, health benefits tamoxifen. Effectiveness utility were...