Open AccessReadiness of health centers and primary hospitals for the implementation of proposed health insurance schemes in Southwest Ethiopia
Author(s) -
Sabit Abazinab,
Mirkuzie Woldie,
Tesfamichael Alaro
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
ethiopian journal of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 2413-7170
pISSN - 1029-1857
DOI - 10.4314/ejhs.v26i5.6
Subject(s) - health insurance , business , primary health care , primary (astronomy) , environmental health , medicine , health care , economic growth , economics , population , physics , astronomy
In response to the 2005 World Health Assembly, many low income countries developed different healthcare financing mechanisms with risk pooling stategy to ensure universal coverage of health services. Accordingly, service availability and readiness of the health system to bear the responsibility of providing service have critical importance. The objective of this study was to assess service availability and readiness of health centers and primary hospitals to bear the responsibility of providing service for the members of health insurance schemes.