Leaving no one behind in health: Financial hardship to access health care in Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Financial hardship (of health care) is a global and a national priority area. All people should be protected from financial hardship to ensure inclusive better health outcome. However, financial hardship of healthcare has not been well studied in Ethiopia in general and in Debre Tabor town in particular. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the incidence of financial hardship of healthcare and associated factors among households in Debre Tabor town.

Methods

Community based cross sectional study was conducted, from May 24/2022 to June 17/2022, on 423 (selected through simple random sampling) households. Financial hardship was measured through catastrophic (using 10% threshold level) and impoverishing (using $1.90 poverty line) health expenditures. Patient perspect

SUBMITTER: Tsega Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10010508 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature