Assessment of equity in healthcare financing and benefits distribution in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Achieving universal health coverage goal by ensuring access to quality health service without financial hardship is a policy target in many countries. Thus, routine assessments of financial risk protection, and equity in financing and service delivery are required in order to track country progress towards realising this universal coverage target. This study aims to undertake a system-wide assessment of equity in health financing and benefits distribution as well as catastrophic and impoverishing health spending by using the recent national survey data in Tanzania. We aim for updated analyses and compare with previous assessments for trend analyses.

Methods and analysis

We will use cross-sectional data from the national Household Budget Survey 2017/2018 covering

SUBMITTER: Binyaruka P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8421259 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature