Study aimed at making community-based health insurance benefits more accessible to the poor

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Health insurance; Health services research; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN37056185
• Lead Sponsor: ondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-06-25
• Last Update Posted: 17 October 2016

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 688

Inclusion Criteria

Subdistrict inclusion criteria:
500 or more female (greater than or equal to 18 years of age) Self Employed Womens Association (SEWA) insurance members in 2003.

Individual inclusion criteria:
All female and male members of SEWA insurance for 2004 and 2005.

Exclusion Criteria

Subdistrict exclusion criteria:
1. All members were mandatorily enrolled in the scheme by a donor agency
2. The sub-district had no general hospital of 25 beds or more

Individual exclusion criteria:
Those whose home could not be found based on given address data.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Socioeconomic status of claimants relative to the membership base in their subdistricts of residence.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Enrolment rates in Vimo SEWA <br>2. Mean socioeconomic of the insured relative to the general rural population <br>3. Rate of insurance claim submission