The effects of individual and community-level factors on community-based health insurance enrollment of households in Ethiopia

Yikeber Abebaw Moyehodie, Solomon Sisay Mulugeta and Seyifemickael Amare Yilema

PLOS ONE, 2022, vol. 17, issue 10, 1-14

Abstract: Introduction: Community-based health insurance (CBHI) is a type of volunteer health insurance that has been adopted all over the world in which people of the community pool funds to protect themselves from the high costs of seeking medical care and treatment for the disease. In Ethiopia, healthcare services are underutilized due to a lack of resources in the healthcare system. The study aims to identify the individual and community level factors associated with community-based health insurance enrollment of households in Ethiopia. Methods: Data from the Ethiopian mini demographic and health survey 2019 were used to identify factors associated with community-based health insurance enrollment of households in Ethiopia. Multilevel logistic regression analysis was used on a nationally representative sample of 8,663 households nested within 305 communities, considering the data’s layered structure. We used a p-value

Date: 2022
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