Households willingness to join and pay for community-based health insurance: implications for designing community-based health insurance based on economic Status in Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the encouraging results achieved by community-based health insurance in Ethiopia, the program faces significant challenges. Among these challenges is the current practice where premium contributions to Community Based Health Insurance are either a flat rate or based solely on family size, rather than considering households' socio-economic status The overall aim of this study was to assess households' willingness to join and pay for Community Based Health Insurance in reference to socio-economic status to design sliding scale-based Community Based Health Insurance contributions in Ethiopia.

Methods

A community based cross-sectional study was conducted in districts from two different contexts: urban areas and agrarian areas in two major regions in Ethiopia,

SUBMITTER: Birhanu Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11936286 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature