Crop insurance is one of the risk management strategies that can help farmers manage hazards more effectively. The third-largest crop plan, PMFBY (Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana), serves as a relief programme for whose crops have been affected by natural calamity. aim study was to determine satisfaction level regarding scheme in Trichy district. research conducted during year 2022 using “ex-p...

BACKGROUND We study the impact of suicide-exclusion periods, common in life insurance policies in Australia, on suicide and accidental death rates for life-insured individuals. If a life-insured individual dies by suicide during the period of suicide exclusion, commonly 13 months, the sum insured is not paid. AIMS We examine whether a suicide-exclusion period affects the timing of suicides. W...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of lack of health insurance among adults aged 18 to 64 years for each state and the United States and to describe populations without insurance. METHODS We used 2013 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to categorize states into 3 groups on the basis of the prevalence of lack of health insurance in each state c...

The general objective of the study was to investigate effect agriculture insurance on farmers’ performance in Rwanda, a case National Agriculture Insurance Project (NAIP). Specifically, examined farm production insured famers before and after joining NAIP, assess income NAIP evaluate savings level NAIP. researcher conducted both descriptive correlational studies. population 241 farmers as coope...

Pricing actuaries try to anticipate insured lives mortality rates for decades into the future by considering historic relationships between population and insured lives mortality and trends in population mortality. The degree to which underwriting might decrease insured lives mortality relative to population mortality is of particular importance. A comparison of trends in population and insured...

To explore how well the safety net performs at eliminating differences in diagnosis and treatment of insured and uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety-net setting. Controlling for socioeconomic characteristics, uninsured women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced disease, requiring more extensive treatment relative to insured wo...

This study's objective is to provide an alternative explanation for the low enrolment in health insurance in Ghana by analysing differences in perceptions between the insured and uninsured of the non-technical quality of healthcare. It further explores the association between insurance status and perception of healthcare quality to ascertain whether insurance status matters in the perception of...

BACKGROUND Excessive healthcare payments can impede access to health services and also disrupt the welfare of households with no financial protection. Health insurance is expected to offer financial protection against health shocks. Ghana began the implementation of its National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2004. The NHIS is aimed at removing the financial barrier to healthcare by limiting...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Prepayments and risk pooling through social health insurance has been advocated by international development organizations. Social health insurance is seen as a mechanism that helps mobilize resources for health, pool risk, and provide more access to health care services for the poor. Hence Ghana implemented the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to help promote ac...