Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia: Complementarities between social protection and health policies

Social protection policies typically involve multiple sectors, ranging from food security to health care. Despite this, limited research is directed toward understanding how different social protection programmes complement each other.We explore complementarities between three major national social...

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Autores principales: Hirvonen, Kalle, Bossuyt, Anne, Pigois, Remy
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142470
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author Hirvonen, Kalle
Bossuyt, Anne
Pigois, Remy
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description Social protection policies typically involve multiple sectors, ranging from food security to health care. Despite this, limited research is directed toward understanding how different social protection programmes complement each other.We explore complementarities between three major national social protection programmes in rural Ethiopia: the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), the Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) scheme and the Health Fee Waiver (HFW) system.We use secondary data from districts in which the PSNP operates to study the coverage of the CBHI and the HFW schemes. We then quantify the prevalence of health shocks reported by poor households and calculate the annual out‐of‐pocket (OOP) health care expenses incurred by poor households in these districts.We find limited overlap between the PSNP and the CBHI or HFW schemes. In districts in which the CBHI operates, about 22% of the PSNP households are enrolled into CBHI. For 10% of all PSNP households, the CBHI insurance premium was waived due to their poverty status. In non‐CBHI districts, 3.5% of PSNP households report having benefitted from HFW. Moreover, many households report serious health shocks that resulted in loss of consumption or assets. The estimated OOP health expenditures are high, even among those households enrolled into CBHI or benefitting from HFW.Taken together, these findings suggest that there is scope to improve the linkages between these three major social protection programmes in Ethiopia to protect the poorest and most vulnerable households.
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spelling CGSpace1424702024-11-15T08:52:40Z Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia: Complementarities between social protection and health policies Hirvonen, Kalle Bossuyt, Anne Pigois, Remy insurance health insurance policies health households social protection health policies healthcare poverty health care communities Social protection policies typically involve multiple sectors, ranging from food security to health care. Despite this, limited research is directed toward understanding how different social protection programmes complement each other.We explore complementarities between three major national social protection programmes in rural Ethiopia: the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), the Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) scheme and the Health Fee Waiver (HFW) system.We use secondary data from districts in which the PSNP operates to study the coverage of the CBHI and the HFW schemes. We then quantify the prevalence of health shocks reported by poor households and calculate the annual out‐of‐pocket (OOP) health care expenses incurred by poor households in these districts.We find limited overlap between the PSNP and the CBHI or HFW schemes. In districts in which the CBHI operates, about 22% of the PSNP households are enrolled into CBHI. For 10% of all PSNP households, the CBHI insurance premium was waived due to their poverty status. In non‐CBHI districts, 3.5% of PSNP households report having benefitted from HFW. Moreover, many households report serious health shocks that resulted in loss of consumption or assets. The estimated OOP health expenditures are high, even among those households enrolled into CBHI or benefitting from HFW.Taken together, these findings suggest that there is scope to improve the linkages between these three major social protection programmes in Ethiopia to protect the poorest and most vulnerable households. 2021-06-17 2024-05-22T12:10:33Z 2024-05-22T12:10:33Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142470 en Limited Access John Wiley & Sons Hirvonen, Kalle; Bossuyt, Anne; and Pigois, Remy. 2021. Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia: Complementarities between social protection and health policies. Development Review 39(4): 532-547. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12516
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Bossuyt, Anne
Pigois, Remy
Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia: Complementarities between social protection and health policies
title Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia: Complementarities between social protection and health policies
title_full Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia: Complementarities between social protection and health policies
title_fullStr Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia: Complementarities between social protection and health policies
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title_short Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia: Complementarities between social protection and health policies
title_sort evidence from the productive safety net program in ethiopia complementarities between social protection and health policies
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health policies
healthcare
poverty
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communities
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142470
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