Burden of Household OOP Health Expenditures
2020
This article, published in Health Policy and Planning, estimates the incidence of catastrophic and impoverishing health expenditures using data from the 2015/16 Ethiopian household consumption and expenditure and welfare monitoring surveys. The authors compute the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) at 10% and 25% thresholds of total household consumption and 40% threshold of household capacity to pay. Impoverishing health expenditures (IHE) are calculated using Ethiopia's national poverty line (ETB 7184 per adult per year). The study finds that a large number of households face financial hardship in Ethiopia, particularly in Afar, Benshangul-Gumuz, Oromia, Amhara, and SNNP regions and this number will likely increase with greater health services utilization.
Burden of Household OOP Health Expenditures
Source:
Kiros M, Dessie E, Abaily A, Tolla MT, Johansson KA, Norheim OF, Memirie ST, Verguet S. The Burden of Household Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Ethiopia: Estimates from a Nationally Representative Survey (2015–16). Health Policy and Planning 2020; 35 (8): 1003-1010. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czaa044