Abstract:
Abstract
Background: As part of the efforts being made to meet universal health coverage,
Ethiopia plans to introduce social health insurance
Objective: This study assess the affordability of the proposed social health insurance
and its associated factor among public institution servants in Metekel zone, North West,
Ethiopia, 2021.
Methods: Institution-based cross-sectional quantitative study design was used among a
randomly selected 973 public servants in Metekel zone. The survey participates were
selected based on stratified random sampling method. Data was collected via structured
questioner, then it was cleaned, coded and entered in to EPI data v.4.6 and exported to
SPSS version 25 statistical package for analysis. Descriptive statistics used to
summarize affordability of the scheme and both bivariable and multivariable logistic
regression was used to examine factors driving the outcome variables. AOR with
corresponding 95% CI was used to report the finding.
Results
The study revealed that 925
Conclusion
The study revealed that affordability of social health insurance would not be a serious
challenge to introduced SHI for the formal sector.
Keyword: Affordability of SHI
