Equity considerations for the implementation of health insurance benefit package in Ethiopia: result of expert Delphi exercise.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Efficiency, equity and financial risk protection are key health systems objectives. Equitable distribution of health care is among the priority strategic initiative of the government of Ethiopia. However, data on the distribution of interventions benefits or on disease burden disaggregated by subpopulations to guide health care priority setting is not available in Ethiopia.

Methods

Aligned with policy documents, we identified the following groups to be the worse off in the Ethiopian context: under-five children, women of reproductive age, the poor, and rural residents. We used the Delphi technique by a panel of 28 experts to assign a score for 253 diseases/conditions over a period of two days, in phases. The expert panel represented different institutes and profes

SUBMITTER: Memirie ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11389339 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature