The effect of community based health insurance on catastrophic health expenditure in Northeast Ethiopia: A cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Moving towards the goal of universal health coverage requires strengthening service delivery and overcoming significant financial barriers. The Government of Ethiopia is rolling out community based health insurance to protect the rural community from high out of pocket health expenditure and improve health service utilization. We investigated the effect of community based health insurance on catastrophic health expenditure in Northeast Ethiopia.

Methods

A community based cross sectional study was conducted. A Multi stage sampling technique was used to get a total of 454 (224 insured and 230 uninsured) households. The data were entered using EPI info version 7 and analyzed using SPSS version 20 and STATA version 13 for binary logistic regression analysis and prop

SUBMITTER: Mekonen AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6193712 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature