Background: Community based health insurance (CBHI) is voluntary, non-profit health insurance. It helps to mobilize additional resource to the health sector. Community Based Health Insurance uses principles of insurance, members pay fees to the insurance scheme and in return their health service cost is covered by the scheme. This way risks can be shared among individuals and financial inputs pooled between individuals who need health service but are not able because they cannot afford it and those who are well but pay premium. Objective: To assess health Care seeking behavior and Community based health insurance among members and non-members in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2023. Methodology: A community based comparative cross-sectional study was conducted. A total of 580 households included in this study. Data was collected by data collectors using a standardized questionnaire through interviews. Associated factors for healthcare seeking behavior is identified by binary and multivariate logistic regression analysis and expressed by adjusted odds ratio (AOR). Multivariate analysis also used to control the effect of confounders. Result: Healthcare-Seeking Behavior of the Study Participants Factors Associated with Healthcare-Seeking Behavior participants the study indicated that the decision-making to visit a health facility for illnesses, disease severity, and CBHI membership had a statistically significant association with HSB. Conclusion: The overall household Health Seeking Behavior was 56.3% for Community Based Health Insurance members and 43.7% for non-Community Based Health Insurance members. Membership status has significant positive effect on healthcare seeking behavior. Decision- making process to visit a health facility for illnesses, disease severity was positively associated with membership status.
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Weldeyohannes, O., Legesse, M., Teklemariam, S. (2024). Healthcare Seeking Behaviour and Associated Factor Among Community Based Health Insurance Members and Non-Members in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2023. Central African Journal of Public Health, 10(5), 211-216. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.cajph.20241005.13
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Weldeyohannes, O.; Legesse, M.; Teklemariam, S. Healthcare Seeking Behaviour and Associated Factor Among Community Based Health Insurance Members and Non-Members in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2023. Cent. Afr. J. Public Health 2024, 10(5), 211-216. doi: 10.11648/j.cajph.20241005.13
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abstract = {Background: Community based health insurance (CBHI) is voluntary, non-profit health insurance. It helps to mobilize additional resource to the health sector. Community Based Health Insurance uses principles of insurance, members pay fees to the insurance scheme and in return their health service cost is covered by the scheme. This way risks can be shared among individuals and financial inputs pooled between individuals who need health service but are not able because they cannot afford it and those who are well but pay premium. Objective: To assess health Care seeking behavior and Community based health insurance among members and non-members in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2023. Methodology: A community based comparative cross-sectional study was conducted. A total of 580 households included in this study. Data was collected by data collectors using a standardized questionnaire through interviews. Associated factors for healthcare seeking behavior is identified by binary and multivariate logistic regression analysis and expressed by adjusted odds ratio (AOR). Multivariate analysis also used to control the effect of confounders. Result: Healthcare-Seeking Behavior of the Study Participants Factors Associated with Healthcare-Seeking Behavior participants the study indicated that the decision-making to visit a health facility for illnesses, disease severity, and CBHI membership had a statistically significant association with HSB. Conclusion: The overall household Health Seeking Behavior was 56.3% for Community Based Health Insurance members and 43.7% for non-Community Based Health Insurance members. Membership status has significant positive effect on healthcare seeking behavior. Decision- making process to visit a health facility for illnesses, disease severity was positively associated with membership status.},
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Department of Public Health, Menelik II Medical and Health Science Collage, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Department of Public Health, Menelik II Medical and Health Science Collage, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Department of Public Health, Menelik II Medical and Health Science Collage, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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