The burden of household out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Ethiopia, household Out-Of-Pocket healthcare expenditure accounts for one-third of total healthcare expenditure, is one of the highest in the world, and still creates barriers and difficulties for households to healthcare access and may delay or forgo needed healthcare use. Despite the presence of a few highly dispersed and inconsistent studies, no comprehensive study was conducted. Therefore, in this systematic review and meta-analysis, we aimed at estimating the pooled estimates of the burden of household Out-Of-Pocket healthcare expenditures among Ethiopian households and identifying its determinants.

Methods

We systematically searched articles from PubMed / Medline and Google scholar databases and direct Google search engine without restriction on publicati

SUBMITTER: Borde MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8802489 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature