Background: Out-of-pocket payments for health care services lead to decreased use of
health services and catastrophic health expenditures. To reduce out-of-pocket payments …

Background Medication nonadherence in patients with chronic diseases, particularly in type
2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with comorbidity, has continued to be the cause of treatment …

Introduction Reliance on out-of-pocket payment for healthcare may lead poor households to
undertake catastrophic health expenditure, and risk-pooling mechanisms have been …

Abstract Acute Lower Respiratory Infections (ALRIs) account for 5.8 million deaths globally
and 50% of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we examined the …

Background In absence of any form of health insurance, out-of-pocket payments for health
care lead to decreased use of health services and catastrophic health expenditures …

Pooling resources to pay for healthcare services and attain universal health coverage is a
viable global agenda, especially for underdeveloped health systems. Ethiopia has …

Background Owing to lack of adequate healthcare financing, access to at least the basic
health services is still a problem in Ethiopia. With the intention of raising funds and ensuring …

Objective Community based health insurance schemes are becoming recognized as
powerful method to achieve universal health coverage and reducing the financial …

Background Despite the efforts made by the government of Ethiopia, the community-based
health insurance (CBHI) enrollment rate failed to reach the potential beneficiaries …

Background Access to healthcare is an essential element of health development and a
fundamental human right. While access to and acceptability of healthcare are complex …