Willingness to Pay for Social Health Insurance and Its Predictors among Government Employees in Mujja Town, Ethiopia

Autor: Feleku Mekonnen Degie, Yeshambel Agumas Ambelie, Yared Mulu Gelaw, Getahun Fentaw Mulaw, Fentaw Wassie Feleke
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: The Scientific World Journal, Vol 2021 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2356-6140
1537-744X
DOI: 10.1155/2021/3149289
Popis: Background. Social health insurance is one of the possible organizational mechanisms for raising and pooling funds to finance health services, private health insurance, community insurance, and others. Objective. The study was aimed to assess willingness to pay for social health insurance and associated factors among government employees in Mujja town, Ethiopia. Methods. An institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted on the total sample size of 375 study respondents. A simple random sampling technique was employed. Data were entered into EPI info 7 and analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 22.0. Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify independent predictors by controlling confounding variables. Statistical significance was declared at p
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