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RIFAN Works To Improve Health Insurance Literacy

Health insurance is a path to healthy life and well-being. We have launched this website to provide a repository where people can find key information about healthcare plans, like the costs of premiums and deductible limits. But for anyone unfamiliar with how health insurance works, it can be really confusing and the time to set […]

What Is Health Insurance?

Health insurance is a type of insurance coverage that pays for medical, surgical, and sometimes dental expenses incurred by the insured. Health insurance can reimburse the insured for expenses incurred from illness or injury, or pay the care provider directly. It is often included in employer benefit packages as a means of enticing quality employees, […]

The impact of health insurance on health.

How does health insurance affect health? After reviewing the evidence on this question, we reach three conclusions. First, many of the studies claiming to show a causal effect of health insurance on health do not do so convincingly because the observed correlation between insurance and good health may be driven by other, unobservable factors. Second, […]

Diabetes Risk Test

It is very likely you know someone with diabetes given that over 20 million people—or 9 percent of the population have diabetes, and this number is only growing. Approximately 1 million Nigerians are diagnosed with diabetes every year, which is about one in four people over 60 years of age. Type 1 diabetes, found mostly in […]

What Are Compulsory Insurances?

Compulsory Insurances are insurances made obligatory by legislation to provide protection to the third party and the general public. Most of these insurances are not as expensive as you think. For instance, you can purchase a Third Party Motor Insurance for as low as N5,000.00. Not all insurances are compulsory, but most of the compulsory […]