IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

AWARENESS OF HEALTH INSURANCE IN RURAL AREA DURING COVID-19 PERIODS IN KANNIYAMURI DISTRICT

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Mr.R. Ramaselvam, Dr.V. Ahila

Abstract

Awareness of health insurance was still very preliminary. Although health insurance is not a new concept and people are also getting familiar with it, yet this awareness has not reached to the level of subscription of health insurance products. Insurance as not been able to make inroads in the rural areas because of key reasons such as high cost of delivery and low awareness among the rural population about insurance products. There is a felt need to provide financial protection to rural families for the treatment of major ailments, requiring hospitalization and surgery. The present study is an effort in the area of health insurance assess the individuals awareness level in the period Covid-19. Convenient sampling method was used to collect data from 100 respondents with the help of Google form. Of this, the filled in forms of 98 respondents were found to be complete and were taken for further analysis. The remaining forms were incomplete, therefore such data were rejected. For analyzing the data percentage and t-test were applied.

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