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Effect of Health Insurance on Inpatient Health Service Utilization among Households Affected by Non-Communicable Diseases in Busia County, Kenya

Wilson Kemei, Jackline M. Nyaberi & Simon K. Ruttoh · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2024

Background: Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are increasingly becoming important agents of illness and premature deaths globally, killing up to 41 million people annually, most of which occur in LMICs. In Kenya, major NCDs are cardio-vascular diseases, chronic respiratory disease...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2024/v22i81065

Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Impoverishment Amongst Hepatitis B Patients in a Resource-Poor Setting

Aloni Alali, Benjamin Osaro, Ishmael Jaja, Sarah Abere & Akinwumi Fajola · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2024

Introduction: The economic burden of managing hepatitis B has become a concern because viral hepatitis disease is a global public health problem that resulted in more deaths in 2016 than HIV and AIDs, Tuberculosis and Malaria individually. This study aimed at estimating the catas...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2024/v22i2980

Willingness to Participate and Pay into a Community- Based Health Insurance Scheme in Imesi-Ile, a Rural Community in Osun State, Nigeria

Oluwaseun T. Esan, Ridwan O. Opeloye, Taiwo W. Oyeniyi, Ayodele O. Joseph, Ifeoluwa B. Oluwalana, Samuel B. Babalola & Iyanuoluwa O. Adeniji · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2020

Aims: Rural dwellers are forced into a vicious circle of lack of financial risk protection to accessing non-optimal care and more poverty from its complications because out-of-pocket payment is their mainstay health care financing option. A sustainable and effective Community-bas...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i1030255