{"id":987514868,"date":"2022-01-17T15:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/documents\/socio-demographic-predictors-of-willingness-to-pay-for-premium-of-national-health-insurance-a-cross-sectional-survey-of-six-districts-in-sierra-leone\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T15:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:19:26","slug":"socio-demographic-predictors-of-willingness-to-pay-for-premium-of-national-health-insurance-a-cross-sectional-survey-of-six-districts-in-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"documents","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/documents\/socio-demographic-predictors-of-willingness-to-pay-for-premium-of-national-health-insurance-a-cross-sectional-survey-of-six-districts-in-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Socio-demographic predictors of willingness to pay for premium of national health insurance: A cross-sectional survey of six districts in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Sierra Leone has been exploring the introduction of a social health insurance scheme as a measure to remove financial barriers that put households at a risk of impoverishment in accessing health care. This study was conducted to find out the predictors of willingness among the people to pay a premium for health insurance. To do this, a cross-sectional study design was employed in six selected districts in Sierra Leone. The results showed that majority of the respondent are willing to join and pay a monthly premium of Le 10000 (US$1.03) with an estimated mean contribution of about Le 14089 (US$1.44) and the top five predictors of willingness to pay (WTP) were household monthly income, age, district of resident, gender, and educational qualification. The findings on predictors of WTP premium of a National Social Health Insurance in Sierra Leone, suggests that the socio-demographic characteristics of the population are important in premium design and payment.<br \/>\nThe full document can be accessed on the link below<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Sierra Leone has been exploring the introduction of a social health insurance scheme as a measure to remove financial barriers that put households at a risk of impoverishment in accessing health care. This study was conducted to find out the predictors of willingness among the people to pay a premium for health&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[133],"document_type":[2321],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987514868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/documents"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987514868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987514868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987514868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987514868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987514868"},{"taxonomy":"document_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document_type?post=987514868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}