Department of Health Science, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia
Research
Assessment of Willingness to Pay: The Mechanism of Financial Pooling for Community Based Health Insurance and Associated Factors among Households in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia, September 1-October 20, 2020
Author(s): Ataklti Gessesse Teka*, Mulugeta Tilahun Gebremidhi, Mulugeta Woldu Abrha, Alemnesh Abrha, Fana Gebreslasie, Asfawesen Aregay, Kiros Fenta, Brhane Ayele and Tsegay Hadgu
Dependence on out-of-pocket payment (OPP) for healthcare may lead poor households to undertake catastrophic health expenditure; millions of people suffer and die because they do not have the money to pay for healthcare. Worldwide about 44 million households face financial problems due to healthcare expenditure; more than 40% of African nations’ health expenditure comes from out-of-pocket payments making a scarcity of funds for health, and lowincome groups make health payments by borrowing or selling property. Therefore, an agenda for developing a system of healthcare financing is common for all nations toward universal health coverage (UHC), using the emerging concept of community-based health insurance (CBHI) as a potential strategy to achieve universal health coverage in developing countries by discussing the problem of healthcare financing in low-income countries (LIC), helpi.. View More»
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