Health insurance and the distribution of healthcare use in Rwanda’s Vision Umurenge Programme: evidence from the Seventh Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey
Jean de Dieu Harerimana, 2026 · Global Health Action
Health insurance coverage increased the likelihood of formal healthcare utilization by 12.3 percentage points among individuals in Rwanda's Vision Umurenge Programme sectors.
Estimativa · Healthcare utilization, percentage points
12,3 [10,5; 14,1]
percentage points
p < 0.001
- Desenho
- Pareamento. Doubly robust inverse-probability-weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA)
- População
- De jure household members in administrative sectors targeted by the Vision Umurenge Programme in Rwanda, 2023–2024
- Amostra
- 15.039 · households (encompassing 62,110 individuals)
Onde está o número
Results > Causal effects of insurance; Section 'Results > Causal effects of insurance', and Table 4, row 'IPWRA (ATE)'
The inverse-probability-weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA) yields a nearly identical estimate of 12.3% points (SE = 0.94, p < 0.001), with a 95% confidence interval of 10.5 to 14.1% points.
Contexto
What changed: Health insurance coverage in Rwanda's Vision Umurenge Programme (VUP) sectors. Comparison: Insured versus uninsured individuals, controlling for health need, demographics, wealth, and district fixed effects using doubly robust IPWRA. Limits: Cross-sectional observational data prone to residual unobserved confounding and self-reported 12-month recall bias.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaTransferências, subsídios e financiamento
- TipoSeguro público
- MecanismoCobertura de seguro de saúde e acesso a cuidados
- EixoSaúde
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Lugares do estudo
- Rwanda · País · RW
- Licença
- CC-BY
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23