Other factors which determine the preference for health insurance include benefit package, enrolment, copayments, and other features of the scheme [ 2, 9].
The impact of the maternal package at enrolment (iron and folic acid supplementation, presumptive treatment for malaria and anti-helminthics) may also have contributed to the rise in Hb.
Recent primary care changes in Ontario, Canada have moved away from the traditional fee-for-service model, towards models that emphasize patient enrolment and provision of packaged services, such as blended fee-for-service, blended capitation and salaried models.
Accordingly, including outpatient care provided at primary health facilities in the MHO benefits package may increase enrolment among the poor.
For example, introducing legislation for enforcing enrolment; making the social security benefit package more attractive; and building capacity within the SSO to stimulate and enforce enrolment, could all be effective strategies to ensuring firms enrol in social security.
Including outpatient care provided at primary health care facilities in the MHO benefits package may also increase enrolment among the poor.
KEY MESSAGES The frequency of premium contributions and benefit package structure can potentially affect enrolment by the poorer in MHOs.
Therefore, it is important to keep in mind that, by design, enrolment in SHI is linked to a broader package of social security benefits and therefore decisions to enrol in social security are determined by the perception of the benefit package as a whole.
3) Training and capacity building of both RNTCP and RSBY and MSBY State Nodal Agency staff in the state [13] by the master trainers of these programmes for correct identification, enrolment, utilization and passing the benefits of the packages to the beneficiaries.
Upon enrolment, the research coordinator at each site gave the enrolled patient (or surrogate) a package containing study materials.
