Impact of Individual Health Insurance on Maternal Healthcare Seeking Behaviour · Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Author: Nyoni, Larry
Title: Impact of Individual Health Insurance on Maternal Healthcare Seeking Behaviour
Abstract: This study investigates the impact of health insurance the uptake of maternal healthcare services in Zimbabwe, where despite being a signatory of Millennium Development Goals which aimed at improving maternal healthcare, however indicators of maternal healthcare continues to perform poorly. The need to understand the crucial factors in improving maternal healthcare motivated the current study, especially since there is dearth of literature in this study area in Zimbabwe. STATA version 13 was used for the estimations. The study used binary logit model to estimate the utilisation of maternal healthcare services (antenatal care). Age, middle wealth quantile, richest wealth quantile, region, insurance cover, marital status and number of living children were significant factors influencing antenatal care services. Basing on these findings, the study advises the Government of Zimbabwe to make more available vocational training centres and education institutions since education influences the uptake of maternal healthcare services. There is need to encourage family planning awareness so as to reduce the number of children which affects the uptake of maternal healthcare. For free maternal healthcare to be successful, the government is advised to ensure that all rural mothers access the healthcare centres bybringing them closer to people and increasing the number of village health workers.
Date: 2024
Publisher: BUSE
Keywords: Individual Health Insurance; Martenal Healthcare
Supervisor: N/A

Item sets: Department of Economics

Media: LARRY NYONI B200278A HEALTH ECONOMICS.pdf