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Title
Willingness to accept capitation payment system under the Ghana National Health Insurance Policy: do income levels matter?
Creator
Frank Gyimah Sackey, Peter N Amponsah
Description
This research was set to examine the factors influencing the willingness and the likelihood of Ghanaians to accept the capitation payment system under the National Health Insurance Scheme. Data was collected through the random sampling method in all the ten regions of Ghana. A probit estimation with marginal effects was adopted to examine the factors influencing the willingness and the likelihood while the generalized Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition was used to examine the extent to which individual characteristics influence the acceptance gap between high income and low-income earners. Our results indicated that, at the individual level, high income, being employed, awareness and smaller household size were the significant factors influencing the willingness and the likelihood to accept capitation. We also observed that the acceptance gap between high income and low-income earners was …
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date
2017
Source
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:WF5omc3nYNoC
Language
English