Implications of Contributions to Equity in Access of Health Care: A Case of Community Based Health Insurance Schemes in Kenya
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The realization of equity goals requires commitment and combination of contributions from all stakeholders in the healthcare sector under the stewardship of the government. The purpose of this study was to examine the mix of contributions in Community Based Health Insurance Schemes (CBHIs) and equity in healthcare in Kenya. The sample was composed of 318 members of management teams drawn from 82 CBHIs. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis, path analysis and multivariate regression analysis in structural modeling equation (SEM) were conducted to determine the mix of contributions in CBHIs and its bearing on equity in healthcare in CBHIs in Kenya. The study concludes that current mix of contributions is not adequate enough to guarantee equity in access of health care for the poor and vulnerable groups. For realization of equity in access of health care governments and sectoral partners should define the place of CBHIs within the national health policy to guide establishment of an optimal combination of contributions in CBHIs for increased access to care and financial risk protection for precluded groups.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".