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Factors influencing drop-out of households from community based health insurance membership in rural districts of Gurage Zone, Southern Ethiopia: Community based case-control study

Kebebush Zepre, Fedila Yassin, Betelhem Tadesse, Omega Tolossa, Derbachew Hailemariam, Asegedech Wondimu, F. GebreEyesus, Tadesse Tsehay et al.

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022

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Abstract

Background Financial risk-sharing through community-based health insurance is a critical component of universal health coverage. However, its development is a great challenge, not only due to low enrollment but also due to the high dropout rate of members from the program, which threatens its sustainability. So far, the few existing studies in this area have focused on household enrollment into community-based health insurance, rather than on the number of members dropping out. This study aims to identify factors influencing households to drop out of community-based health insurance membership in rural districts of the Gurage Zone, Southern Ethiopia. Methods A community-based case-control study was carried out from May to July 2021. Supplemented by qualitative focus group discussions. Multi-stage sampling was employed. An interviewer-administered prearranged tool was used for collecting data. Epi-data version 3.1 and SPSS version 21 were used for data entry and analysis. The association between factor and outcome variable was determined using binary logistic regression analysis at p 3 h (AOR:4.26, 95% CI:1.70–10.66), and poor perception of service quality (AOR:12.38, 95%CI:2.46–62.24). Conclusion The findings of this study illustrated various factors which positively and negatively influenced households to drop out from CBHI: wealth status, attitude toward CBHI, perceived poor provider attitude toward CBHI members, illness experience in the household, the experience of…

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