Financial risk of seeking maternal and neonatal healthcare in southern Ethiopia: a cohort study of rural households.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Ethiopian households' out-of-pocket healthcare payments constitute one-third of the national healthcare budget and are higher than the global and low-income countries average, and even the global target. Such out-of-pocket payments pose severe financial risks, can be catastrophic, impoverishing, and one of the causal barriers for low utilisation of healthcare services in Ethiopia. This study aimed to assess the financial risk of seeking maternal and neonatal healthcare in southern Ethiopia.

Methods

A population-based cohort study was conducted among 794 pregnant women, 784 postpartum women, and their 772 neonates from 794 households in rural kebeles of the Wonago district, southern Ethiopia. The financial risk was estimated using the incidence of catastrophic he

SUBMITTER: Borde MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7236117 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature