Open AccessWillingness to Pay for Social Health Insurance Among Teachers at Governmental Schools in Gondar Town, Northwest Ethiopia
Author(s) -
Atalele Setegn,
Gashaw Andargie,
Getasew Amare,
Ayal Debie
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
risk management and healthcare policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.828
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1179-1594
DOI - 10.2147/rmhp.s298256
Subject(s) - salary , willingness to pay , government (linguistics) , odds ratio , confidence interval , medicine , payroll , health care , socioeconomics , demography , environmental health , business , economic growth , economics , political science , sociology , law , microeconomics , linguistics , philosophy , accounting , pathology
Globally, about 1.3 billion people lack access to effective and affordable healthcare and 150 million people in 44 million households face financial catastrophe. Health insurance schemes are an effective financing mechanism to help people who are unable to use healthcare services. However, the government employee's Willingness to Pay (WTP) for the proposed premium for health insurance were not well investigated.