Open AccessBarriers and Facilitators of Community-Based Health Insurance Membership in Rural Amhara Region, Northwest Ethiopia: A Qualitative Study
Author(s) -
Getu Debalkie Demissie,
Asmamaw Atnafu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinicoeconomics and outcomes research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.591
H-Index - 27
ISSN - 1178-6981
DOI - 10.2147/ceor.s293847
Subject(s) - focus group , thematic analysis , popularity , payment , qualitative research , nonprobability sampling , poverty , business , community health , medicine , socioeconomics , geography , environmental health , economic growth , marketing , psychology , nursing , finance , population , public health , sociology , economics , social psychology , social science
More than 150 million people encounter huge cost of health expenses every year, and most of these treatment seekers face poverty owing to out-of-pocket payments. Community-based health insurance (CBHI) won popularity as a makeshift health financing mechanism for out-of-pocket payments in poor communities. The aim of this study was therefore to explore the facilitators and impediments of enrollment to community-based health insurance in rural parts of the Amhara region, Ethiopia.