An in-depth insight into the household and healthcare financing in rural and peri-urban households in Kakamega and Kisumu

Abstract

About 100 million of the world’s population is driven into extreme poverty due to ill health and lack of access to quality healthcare. Governments prioritize to ensure that the population accesses essential health services without facing financial hardships through a renewed international commitment to implement Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The i-PUSH program is a collaborative partnership between AMREF Health Africa and PharmAccess Foundation to actualize access to affordable quality healthcare by improving the healthcare infrastructure, community health volunteers' (CHVs) knowledge, and access to health insurance for the population in Kenya through innovative mobile technologies. This study aimed to provide a deep insight into the household and healthcare financing in rural and peri-urban communities in two Counties (Kisumu and Kakamega) in Kenya to provide evidence on the perceptions of populations to health insurance, saving for health, and health-seeking behavior of communities in such contexts. This was to provide a basis for more research on the feasibility and sustainability of health insurance use and impact on health outcomes for the populations in the study settings, as well as to inform the programming of the i-PUSH program and UHC implementation.