Willingness to pay for cataract surgery and associated factors among cataract patients in Outreach Site, North West Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In Ethiopia, cataract surgery is mainly provided by donors free of charge through outreach programs. Assessing willingness to pay for patients for cataract surgery will help explain how the service is valued by the beneficiaries and design a domestic source of finance to sustain a program. Although knowledge concerning willingness to pay for cataract surgery is substantive for developing a cost-recovery model, the existed knowledge is limited and not well-addressed. Therefore, the study aimed to assess willingness to pay for cataract surgery and associated factors among cataract patients in Outreach Site, North West Ethiopia.

Methods

A cross-sectional outreach-based study was conducted on 827 cataract patients selected through a simple random sampling method in

SUBMITTER: Seid M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7990211 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature