What is it about?
Given the low levels of health insurance coverage, the Democratic Republic of the Congo will not reach the Sustainable Development Goal 3, aimed at improving maternal and child health unless a serious programmatic health shift is undertaken in the country to tackle inequalities among poor and uneducated women via universal health coverage.
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Why is it important?
Our findings showed significant spatial variations of the health insurance ownership which ranged from 1.2% in Bandundu and Kasaï Oriental to 15.5% in Kinshasa the Capital City. Therefore, policymakers and stakeholders need to strategically think of community-based insurance schemes to increase health insurance coverage in the country.
Perspectives
In low resource settings, out-of-pocket expenses can jeopardize people's health and wellbeing. Healthcare is contingent to people's abilities to pay cash to access the required care, putting people's lives in danger. This is a all for action internally and internationally
Dr Zacharie Tsala Dimbuene
Statistics Canada
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This page is a summary of: Poverty, education and health insurance coverage among women of reproductive ages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a cross-sectional and multilevel analysis, BMJ Open, December 2022, BMJ,
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064834.
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