Awareness about the New Social Health Insurance System, among Physicians in Primary Health Care Centers in Cairo governorate, and Factors Affecting it (original) (raw)

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 2021

Abstract

Introduction The Government of Egypt is committed to attain Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and its progress in this vein has been spurred recently through the approval of the Social Health Insurance (SHI) law. Health providers are important stakeholders in the implementation of the SHI system. Objective The objective of this study was to estimate the level of awareness of physicians and managers in Primary Health Care Centers (PHCCs) in Cairo governorate about the new system and the factors affecting it. Method A cross-sectional study was conducted to estimate the awareness level of 100 physicians and managers from PHCCs in Cairo governorate in 2019. PHCCs subjected to this study were selected randomly from the official list of the PHCCs in Cairo governorate from the MOH, and the required sample of physicians was randomly selected inside each center. A semi-structured Arabic interview questionnaire was used, with a reliability coefficient of 0.70. Results The study revealed that t...

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