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Determinants of enrollment in community based health insurance among Households in Tach-Armachiho Woreda, North Gondar, Ethiopia, 2019

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  • Muluken Genetu Chanie
  • Gojjam Eshetie Ewunetie

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Background: Recently in Ethiopia, there is an increasing movement to implement community based health insurance scheme as integral part of health care financing and remarkable movements has resulted in the spread of the scheme in different parts of the country. Despite such increasing effort, recent empirical evidence shows enrolment has remained low. To identify determinants of enrollment in community based health insurance among households in Tach-Armachiho Woreda, North Gondar, Ethiopia, 2019. Methods: A community based unmatched case control study was conducted Tach-Armachiho Woreda from March to May 2019 among 262 participants (88 cases and 174 controls with case control ratio of 1:2). Study subjects were selected using multi-stage sampling technique. Data were collected using a pretested, structured interviewer administered questioner. Data were entered to Epi-info 7 and exported to SPSS version 20 for analysis. Bivariable and multivariable logistic regression model were used to see the determinants of enrollment in community based health insurance. Adjusted odds ratio with 95% CI at p-value

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  • Muluken Genetu Chanie & Gojjam Eshetie Ewunetie, 2020. "Determinants of enrollment in community based health insurance among Households in Tach-Armachiho Woreda, North Gondar, Ethiopia, 2019," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(8), pages 1-10, August.
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    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236027
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