Access to health care for the ‘worst-off’ in Burkina Faso: 15 years of research
1. Access to health care for
the ‘worst-off’ in Burkina Faso:
15 years of research
9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health
Valéry Ridde
08 September 2015
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3. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. WHY targeting the worst-off ?
2. HOW to target the worst-off ?
3. WHO are the worst-off ?
4. WHAT are the impact ?
5. CHALLENGES of targeting?
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6. WHY targeting the worst-off ?
• 2000 : National health policy
• 2007 : National subsidy for deliveries 2009
: National directive to use local cost-
recovery funds
• 2011 : National Health Strategy
• 2012 : National Social Protection Policy
• 2014/5 : National Health Insurance
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8. HOW to target the worst-off ?
MT
PMT
CBT
GT
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9. STATE LED COMMUNITY
BASED
HEALTH STAFF +
CRITERIA
Time period
covered
May 2004 to
September 2005
November 2007 to 2012
June 2008 to September
2010
Services
exempted
Drugs at CSPS
All services at CSPS and
district hospital
All services at CSPS and
district hospital
Criteria for
selection
No criteria provided
Community-based
definition of indigence
20 criteria
Selection of
beneficiaries
Health workers at
point of service
Community at village level
(pre-identification)
Health workers at point
of service (passive
identification)
Information to
the
beneficiaries
At point of service
Individual distribution of
cards
At point of service
Funding and
compensation
mechanisms
Ministry allocation
of drugs
No compensation
Cost-recovery schemes
used to finance exemption
(Endogenous)
Cost-recovery schemes
used to finance
exemption (Endogenous)
Ridde et al, 2012
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11. Selected worst-off below the poverty line
Ridde et al, BMC Public Health 2010, 10:631
• % 60 years old + (<0,001)
• %of widow/ers (0,066)
• Disability (0,004)
• Health problem (<0,001)
• Delayed /lack of funds (0,004)
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Ridde et al, 2010
12. CB Targeting effectiveness
FEW INCLUSION ERRORS
• 0,17%/0,12 % non poor
• 0,20%/0,15 % non
extreme poor
BUT VERY LOW COVERAGE
• 0,36%/0,21% of poor
• 0,78%/0,28% of
extreme poor
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16. “STREET” WORKERS DEFINTION
• What are the criteria that enable you to say
someone can be identified as indigent to be
exempted from user fees ?
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17. WHO are the worst-off ?
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Ridde et al, 2012
18. COMMUNITY BASED DEFINITION
“someone who is extremely
disadvantaged socially and
economically, unable to look
after him/herself and devoid of
internal or external resources”
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19. COMMUNITY BASED DEFINITION
• Widowed (OR = 1.40; CI 95% [1.10–1.78])
• Had no financial assistance from their household for
healthcare (OR = 1.58; CI 95% [1.26–1.97]
• Lived alone (OR = 1.28; CI 95% [1.01–1.63])
• Vision impairments (OR = 1.45; CI 95% [1.14–1.84]),
poor muscle strength & good mobility (OR = 1.73; CI
95% [1.28–2.33])
• Not determined by household income, self-reported
chronic illness, or previous use of services
Atchessi et al, 2014
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20. Distribution of indigents
based on their
distance from the HC
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COGESs chose the people closest to HC
Ridde, Bonnet et al, 2012
21. DISTANCE WAS A BARRIER
TO SELECTION
RED = density for indigents
not retained by the
COGESs
Specialization
in the selection
according to the
catchment areas
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Ridde, Bonnet et al, 2012
22. Anxiety and Depression (2014)
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40,2% have more than 10
anxious/depressive
symptoms
0
1 to 4
5 to 9
10 to 14
Pigeon-Gagné et al, 2015
23. SELF PERCEPTION (2014/03)
HEALTH STATUS WORRY /ANXIETY
SAD / DEPRESSED
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
oui un peu non
SLEEP DISORDER
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
oui un peu non
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
oui un peu non
Pigeon-Gagné et al, 2015
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
GOOD MODERATE POOR
WORST-OFF
GEN. POP.
YES LITTLE NO
YES LITTLE NOYES LITTLE NO
24. Health Care Access
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• Health problem during the last 6 months = 69%
(n=1141)
• General Health care utilization : 48,8% to 77,8%
• Health care utilization due to a mental health
problem : 1,7%
Atchessi et al, 2015
28. Not enough to increase use of healthcare
• Use of health care services
– Exempted = 46.2%
– Non-Exempted = 42.1%
– OR = 1.1, CI 95% [0.80–1.51]), p=0,554
• Increased use regardless the exemption status (p <0.05)
o > 69 years of age (OR = 1.66, CI 95% [1.05–2.64])
o Male (OR = 1.44, CI 95% [0.99–2.08])
o Low-income HH (OR = 1.71, CI 95% [1.15–2.54])
o Received financial support to obtain healthcare (OR = 1.59, CI
95% [1.1–2.28]).
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Atchessi et al, 2015
34. RESEARCH IMPACTS
• PhD and MSc/MPH students
• Scientific Articles and Books
• 2007 = National Free delivery’s attention for the
worst-off (20%)
• 2009 = National directive
• 2012 : National guideline and National social
protection policy (20%)
• 2014 : PBF + CBT in 10 districts
• 2015 : Exemption (10%) for National Health
Insurance
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36. “To address the
problem of reach
requires methods
that actively
connect the
provision of health
services to people
who are otherwise
invisible and thus
unreachable”
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39. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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• MoH staff, communities, IDRC, CIHR, FRSQ, ECHO,
WB, AGIR, HELP, Muraz, etc.
• Kadio K, Kafando Y, Bonnet E, Atchessi N, Zunzunegi
M-V, Simpore L, Bado A, Queuille L, Pigeon-Gagné
E, Hunt M, Yaogo M, Samb O, Bonnet E, P-A Somé,
Koulidiati J-J, Souares A De Allegri M, etc., etc.
40. THANKS YOU / MERCI
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@equitesante
@valeryridde
Notes de l'éditeur
When I start my research program I was young wth long hair…
2000 = master thesis with my first article at BWHO
15 years later = few books and papers about this, even book in french…
I will try to summarize some of the major evidence that me and my colleague have.. Because we are a very large team, researchers, students, professional etc
Scientific relevance to produce more evidence BUT also evidence to support policy decision-making
All policy doc = want to target but do not know how
You all know what are the challenges to improve the access to..
Means testing (MT) = income or expenditure threshold
Proxy Means Testing (PMT) = criteria that relate to income
Participatory Wealth Ranking (PWR) = criteria defined by the community in focus group discussions
Geographic Targeting (GT) = poverty clusters on the basis of aggregate poverty indicators
A mix of processes
Evaluation of 3 processus to target the WO
Very low capacity to contribut at local level
living in the most disadvantaged conditions
Pie chart : 11,6%, 17,90% 30,30% et 40%
Distribution :
Quand on le fait avec nombre de sx = mêmes facteurs importants!
VALÉRY : très intéressant, attention à l’interprétation car ici on est dans l’échantillon des indigents, ce qui veut dire que si on comparait avec des non indigents…. Mais cela montre bien aussi qu’il y a des sous-groupes chez les indigents !
Donc seulement 3% sont aller consulter un type quelconque de soins pour les symptômes anxieux, dépressifs ou psychotiques!… ET un tiers de l’Échantillon n’en a pas parlé…
Profil de quelqu’un qui ne parle pas de ses sx = ++ curieux…
29 VG
42,1
22,6
5,6
0,7
formal (loti) and an informal (non-loti)
in with no statistically significant association between the exemption status and the increased use of health care services (OR = 1.1, CI 95% [0.80–1.51]), p=0,554.
Evaluation prévue en 2016, à suivre donc, sur un échantillon de 2000
Après 5 années de recherche des progrès ont cependant été réalisés. L’expérience dans ce district a été reproduite dans trois autres districts du Burkina Faso et deux du Niger. Ces recherches ont aussi été prises en compte dans la nouvelle (2012) politique nationale de protection sociale et le référence national sur l’indigence. Un guide destiné aux communautés pour reproduire le processus participatif sera distribué à la fin de l’année 2012.
Voir : http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-698X/11/S2/S9