Like other insurance schemes, it aims to improve use of services for unmet healthcare needs while reducing often catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditures associated with complex illnesses.
Importantly, the availability of female health workers is critical for improving use of maternal health services.
Results suggest that improving use of reproductive health care services will require reducing partner abuse and enhancing empowerment among women in Ghana and other low-income countries, particularly among those with no formal education.
This study suggests that the multi-pronged intervention of facility/provider readiness, deployment of community intermediaries and a coordinated BCC campaign on abortion was successful in improving use of and knowledge about safe MA services in Jharkhand.
"The Health Extension Workers have become an essential part of health service delivery in communities and will be the force behind moving towards universal health coverage in Namibia," says UNICEF Namibia Representative Ms. Micaela Marques De Sousa, who recognizes the impact that Abner and his colleagues have had in improving use of maternal, newborn and child health services in the country.
There is also evidence that broader roles for CHWs, including curative treatment of malnutrition, acute respiratory infection, and diarrhea, improve use of CHW services.
(Physician 2) To the best of our knowledge, this is the first qualitative study of the potential of mHealth in India, and emphasises three main uses of mHealth: (1) as an educational tool; (2) to optimise the use of limited healthcare and patient resources; (3) to improve use of healthcare services for disease prevention and management.
The information obtained will help the district health management team to develop interventions to improve use of delivery care services and ultimately achieve the millennium goal to reduce the high rates of maternal mortality.
School programmes could also improve use of oral health care services for curative purposes [ 34].
The Australian Government Department of Veterans Affairs DVAVA) funds an ongoing health promotion based program to improve use of medicines and related health services, which implements interventions that include audit and feedback in the form of patient-specific feedback generated from administrative claims records.
With the strong emphasis on maternal and child health, an expectation of the NHIS is that women enrolled in the program will have improved use of relevant maternal and child health services and ultimately improved health outcomes.
