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Socioeconomic Characteristics of Enrollees in Community Health Insurance Schemes in Africa.

The CMS project provided technical assistance to the Nkoranza Health Plan in Ghana (a hospital-based plan primarily offering inpatient care — the only exception being outpatient care for dog and snake bites) and the Lacor Health Plan (a hospital-based plan offering inpatient and outpatient care to small groups in war-torn northern Uganda). A study of willingness to pay for a new benefit — normal obstetric delivery — in Nkoranza and the evaluation of the Lacor plan provided two data sets, from which the characteristics of joiners and non-joiners were analyzed.