"People argue that awareness, not monetary goals, are the objective of these campaigns," he says.
Many local businesses and celebrities supported and participated in the tournament that raised awareness and monetary goals for the Boys & Girls Club of Sacramento and Quest 4 Success, both organizations promote the well-being and success of youth in Sacramento.
The most important hypothesized factors were that enrollees with better general knowledge of the health insurance scheme and awareness of monetary contributions were expected to be more satisfied.
However, certain factors such as general knowledge of the health insurance scheme and awareness of monetary contributions greatly influenced enrollee's satisfaction of health care delivery.
Awareness of monetary contribution as a composite focussed on whether the respondents were knowledgeable of both the employees' and the employer's monetary contributions to the health insurance programme.
The questionnaire included five sections with questions related to the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the respondents, general knowledge of the health insurance scheme, awareness of monetary contributions, utilization of health services, and clients' satisfaction.
Marital status (p <.05), general knowledge of health insurance (p <.001), and awareness of monetary contributions (p <.05) significantly influenced enrollee's satisfaction with health service provision in the health insurance scheme.
General knowledge of the health insurance package, awareness of monetary contributions, frequent hospital visits due to illnesses, length of employment and length of enrolment in the health insurance programme confirmed our hypotheses because they positively influenced satisfaction.
Positive linkages with satisfaction were associated with enrollees who had more knowledge of the health insurance, frequently visited the hospital, had longer length of enrolment, and also had some awareness of monetary contributions.
The purpose of this study was to calculate a monetary value to raise awareness of the cost implications at a population level of prescribing analogue insulin instead of human insulin rather than to suggest an exact percentage of patients with diabetes who could be equally well treated with human instead of analogue insulin.
