免费医疗保险是否改善了加纳老年人的医疗保健使用和劳动力市场结果？

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Journal of the Economics of Ageing Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jeoa.2022.100418

Frank Darkwah

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摘要

在2003年实行国家健康保险计划之前，负担得起的医疗保健服务一直是加纳老年人面临的一个挑战，该计划免除了老年人的保险费。该研究采用了来自加纳生活水平调查的家庭层面数据，以调查免除老年人的医疗保险费支付是否会影响加纳老年人的医疗保健利用和劳动力市场结果。研究发现，拥有医疗保险增加了老年人到医疗机构就诊的次数，并增加了接受卫生专业人员治疗的可能性。就劳动力市场结果而言，研究结果表明，免费医疗保险增加了老年人的工作时数和收入，女性在农业方面的收入增长幅度略大于男性。

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Does free health insurance improve health care use and labour market outcomes of the elderly in Ghana?

Affordable access to health care was a challenge for the elderly in Ghana until the introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme in 2003, where the elderly were exempted from premium payments. The study employs household-level data from the Ghana Living Standard Survey to investigate whether exempting the elderly from health insurance premium payments affects healthcare utilisation and labour market outcomes of the elderly in Ghana. The study finds that having health insurance increases the elderly visits to a health facility and the probability of being treated by health professionals. For labour market outcomes, the results indicate that free health insurance increases both the number of hours worked and earnings of the elderly and the size of the increase in earnings in agriculture is slightly larger for females than with males.

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Journal of the Economics of Ageing Multiple-

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4.10

自引率

4.50%

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审稿时长

49 days

期刊介绍： The Journal of the Economics of Ageing (JEoA) is an international academic journal that publishes original theoretical and empirical research dealing with the interaction between demographic change and the economy. JEoA encompasses both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives and offers a platform for the discussion of topics including labour, health, and family economics, social security, income distribution, social mobility, immigration, productivity, structural change, economic growth and development. JEoA also solicits papers that have a policy focus.