New Public Health Study Findings Recently Were Reported by Researchers at Samara University (The Impact of Community-Based Health Insurance on Household’s Welfare in Chilga District, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia): Health and Medicine – Public Health

2022 JUN 16 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Researchers detail new data in public health. According to news reporting originating from Samara University by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Household welfare is depleted by catastrophic health expenditure by forcing families to reduce the consumption of necessary goods and services, underutilization of health services, and of finally falling into the poverty trap.”

The news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Samara University: “To mitigate such problem, the Government of Ethiopia launched CBHI schemes. Therefore, this study investigates the household welfare impact of Community based health insurance (CBHI) in the Chilga district. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 531 households (of which 356 were treated and 175 control groups). Probit and propensity score matching (PSM) were used to analyze the data. Probit model revealed the following: Level of education, access to credit, chronic disease, insurance premium, awareness, distance to health service, and health service waiting time are significant determinates for being insured in CBHI. The PSM method revealed that the insured households associated with visits increased by 2.6 times, reduced per-capita health expenditure by 17-14% points, increased the per-capita consumption of non-food items by 12-14% points, increased the per-capita consumption of food items by 12-13% points in a given matching algorithm compared to the counterparts.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Therefore, CBHI has enhanced service utilization by reducing per-capita health expenditure and increasing consumption per-capita, in general, it improved household welfare. To this end, the results of this study suggested that the government (ministry of health) and concerned bodies (such as NGOs) should extend the coverage and accessibility of CBHI schemes, create aware to the society about CBHI, and subsidize premium costs of the poor.”

For more information on this research see: The Impact of Community-Based Health Insurance on Household’s Welfare in Chilga District, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia. Frontiers in Public Health, 2022,10. (Frontiers in Public Health - http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/public-health). The publisher for Frontiers in Public Health is Frontiers Media S.A.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.868274.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Dagmawe Menelek Asfaw, Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics, Samara University, Samara, Ethiopia. Additional authors for this research include Sirage Mohammed Shifaw, Atinkugn Assefa Belete, Setognal Birara Aychiluhm.

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