kenya healthcare monitor additional data

Kenya Healthcare MonitorMeasuring the Pulse of the Kenyan Health Sector

Data from April 2012 National Omnibus Survey

01. 05.2012 © 2012 Ipsos. All rights reserved. Contains Ipsos' Confidential and Proprietary information and may not bedisclosed or reproduced without the prior written consent of Ipsos.

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What is it?

A regular mixed-method survey to assess key elements of the Kenyan Health Sector.

Purpose:

Tool for advocacy and accountability

Detecting health sector trends

Public Relations

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How does it work?

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5 Thematic AreasHealth Service Provision

Medical Insurance CoverageSupply Chain

Non-Communicable DiseasesImpact of Ill Health

5.41 (too much) (very fair) 10

Health Service Provision

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Did you think the money paid for the services you

received at the health facility (excluding drugs)

was a fair price, in view of the services you

received?

6.4(highly) 101 (not at all)

Health Service Provision

women 6.50men 6.21

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How satisfied were you with the service you

received?

Health Service Provision

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How satisfied were you with the service you

received?

5.80

5.90

6.00

6.10

6.20

6.30

6.40

6.50

6.60

18-24 25-34 35-44 45+

Health Insurance

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How satisfied are you with your medical cover/

medical allowance?

Please rate on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 means that you are

not satisfied at all, and 10 means that you are highly satisfied?

mean score

NHIF 7.44 n=542

Medical cover offered by employer (6.86) n=38

Individual medical cover (6.80) n=38

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Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance

*Disclaimer: Data not reviewed

“Suppose you have to pay health costs yourself, meaning that no one else pays for it.

What would you choose between paying health costs in cash as they arise, or to buy a medical insurance that is affordable to you?”

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*Disclaimer: Data not reviewed

• No difference between gender. • Younger & more educated more likely to chose health insurance. • Immense regional (cultural) difference

18-34 35+

67% 62%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

46%79%

Coast Nyanza

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Rational Use of Drugs

*Disclaimer: Data not reviewed

“Have you or has someone in your family received any medicine that was prescribed/recommended by a doctor or a clinical officer in the last 3 months?

- 46% Yes -…was this medicine used or shared by any other person than person for whom it was prescribed / recommended by the doctor?”

13% Yes

8%

22%

Central Western

Impact of Ill Health

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Sept-Dec 1.33

Jan-Apr 2.06

Days missed, past 90 days?

(main breadwinner)

December

Estimate

Updated

Estimate

5.3 6.8

Days missed per Year

MORE INFORMATION

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Joel Lehmann Healthcare

+254 738 98 99 50joel.lehmann@ipsos.com

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No Medical Cover 77%NHIF 18%

Medical cover offered by employer 1%Individual medical cover 1%

Medical allowance

Covered by employer of someone else in HH

Micro-Insurance/tied to micro-finance

Others 1%Don't know 2%

0%

Medical Insurance Coverage, Kenya - April 2012

*Disclaimer: Data not reviewed. Sample Size: 3,000 countrywide.

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Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance, Kenya - April 2012

*Disclaimer: Data not reviewed

29%

65%

5% 1%

Pay health costs in cash as they arise

Buy a health insurance

Don't know

No response