Evaluating the impact of the National Health Insurance Fund oncology benefits package and a healthcare workers’ strike on time to cancer treatment initiation in Nairobi County, Kenya: An interrupted time series analysis

In April 2015, Kenya introduced the National Health Insurance Oncology Benefits Package and its complementary reforms (oncology insurance scheme) to alleviate financial hardship among its members upon a cancer diagnosis. In this study, we hypothesised that the time it took to start treatment would h...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 20; no. 5; p. e0324593
Main Authors:	Gakunga, Robai, Korir, Anne, Bouttell, Janet
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 22.05.2025 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Adult Borrowing Cancer Cancer therapies Care and treatment Chemotherapy Collating Costs Data collection Data points Data science Demonstrations and protests Diagnosis Evaluation Female Health care Health care expenditures Health Personnel Health services Hospitals Households Humans Immunotherapy Influence Insurance Insurance, Health Interrupted Time Series Analysis Kenya - epidemiology Male Median (statistics) Medical personnel Medicine and Health Sciences Middle Aged National health insurance National Health Programs - economics Neoplasms - economics Neoplasms - epidemiology Neoplasms - therapy Oncology Patients People and Places Physical Sciences Radiation therapy Social Sciences Statistical analysis Surgery Time series Time-to-Treatment - statistics & numerical data Kenya
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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