Impact assessment of the PMJAY Public Health Insurance Scheme in India
On behalf of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), a consortium of Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (University of Heidelberg), the Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and City University of London, is in charge of conducting the impact assessment of the PMJAY Health Insurance Scheme in India. PMJAY is expected to become the biggest health insurance of the world including 500 million households. The project team employs a mixed methods design that includes quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Project Lead:
Manuela De Allegri (Heidelberg University)
Divya Parmar (City University London)
Project Team:
Christoph Strupat
Financing:
Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Time frame:
2019 - 2021
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completed
Co-operation Partner:
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (University of Heidelberg), City University of London
Project description
End of 2018 the government of India launched a new and countrywide health insurance scheme, Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana Abhiyan (PMJAY). PMJAY is expected to become the biggest health insurance of the world including 500 million households and consolidates gains made by the countrywide RSBY health insurance scheme. On behalf of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), a consortium of Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (University of Heidelberg), the Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and City University of London, is in charge of conducting the impact assessment of PMJAY. The project includes four components that stretch from completing a systematic scoping review of existing literature on insurance schemes in the region to rigoruous estimate the impacts of PMJAY on both supply-side and demand-side factors. It will include a quantitative household survey covering 14,000 households, a hospital survey and a qualitative survey including focus group discussions and expert interviews in 7 states. Main aim of the project is to provide accompanying research and support to the insurance providers. Furthermore, the impact assessment will examine if eligible households benefit from the new scheme by improved access to health care, better quality of health care, lower health expenditures and less risk to become poor due to health shocks.
Publications
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Effects of the Indian National Health Insurance Scheme (PM-JAY) on hospitalizations, out- of-pocket expenditures and catastrophic expenditures
Strupat, Christoph / Divya Parmar / Swati Srivastava / Stephan Brenner / Diletta Parisi / Susanne Ziegler / Rupak Neogi / Caitlin Walsh / Manuela De Allegri (2023)
in: Health Systems & Reforms 9 (1), article 2227430 -
Mixed and multi-methods to evaluate implementation processes and early effects of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana Scheme in seven Indian states
De Allegri, Manuela / Swati Srivastava / Christoph Strupat et al. (2020)
in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 (21), article 7812, Online -
Awareness of India’s national health insurance scheme (PM-JAY): A cross-sectional study across six states
Parisi, Diletta / Swati Srivastava / Christoph Strupat et al. (2022)
in: Health Policy and Planning 38 (1), 289-300 -
The social value of health insurance: results from Ghana
Garcia Mandico, Silvia / Arndt Reichert / Christoph Strupat (2019)
(World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9004) -
Modicare could help India’s poor population
Strupat, Christoph (2019)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), (The Current Column of 11 March 2019) -
Linking social protection schemes: the joint effects of a public works and a health insurance programme in Ethiopia
Shigute, Zemzem / Christoph Strupat / Francesco Burchi / Getnet Alemu / Arjun S. Bedi (2019)
in: The Journal of Development Studies (Online first) -
Crowding out of solidarity? Public health insurance versus informal transfer networks in Ghana
Strupat, Christoph / Florian Klohn (2018)
in: World Development 104 (4), 212-221