{"id":987516261,"date":"2021-07-30T15:28:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/documents\/the-impact-of-national-health-insurance-upon-accessibility-of-health-services-and-financial-protection-from-catastrophic-health-expenditure-a-case-study-of-savannakhet-province-the-lao-people\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T06:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T05:12:48","slug":"the-impact-of-national-health-insurance-upon-accessibility-of-health-services-and-financial-protection-from-catastrophic-health-expenditure-a-case-study-of-savannakhet-province-the-lao-people","status":"publish","type":"documents","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/documents\/the-impact-of-national-health-insurance-upon-accessibility-of-health-services-and-financial-protection-from-catastrophic-health-expenditure-a-case-study-of-savannakhet-province-the-lao-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The impact of National Health Insurance upon accessibility of health services and financial protection from catastrophic health expenditure: a case study of Savannakhet province, the Lao People\u2019s Democratic Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This study aims to assess the effectiveness of the National Health Insurance\u00a0(NHI) Scheme in terms of its accessibility and in providing financial protection from catastrophic health expenditure. The data collection process was implemented in hospitals of two districts of Savannakhet province. A structured questionnaire was used to retrieve all required information from 342 households. Key\u00a0findings\u00a0 showed\u00a0that NHI significantly improved accessibility for the poorest income quantile. In addition,\u00a0probability of catastrophic expenditure was not affected by income level, it was indicated that NHI is able to provide equity in financial protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study aims to assess the effectiveness of the National Health Insurance\u00a0(NHI) Scheme in terms of its accessibility and in providing financial protection from catastrophic health expenditure. The data collection process was implemented in hospitals of two districts of Savannakhet province. A structured questionnaire was used to retrieve all required information from 342 households. Key\u00a0findings\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[122],"document_type":[2321],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987516261"}],"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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987516261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987516261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987516261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987516261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987516261"},{"taxonomy":"document_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document_type?post=987516261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}