Health insurance education strategies for increasing the insured among older population – a quasi experimental study in rural Kenya

The disease burden among the older population in developing countries remains a challenge. This premise is based on the finding that older persons aged 60 years or more are less likely to be insured, and are more vulnerable to ill health and financial problems, especially when they are uninsured .One of the reasons for the high disease burden among the sub-population in Kenya is the low utilization of available health facilities . The baseline results of this study showed that the most mentioned reason (52.2%) for being uninsured among the older population was lack of adequate knowledge on the benefits, sources and access procedures to being insured

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