Acceptance of the proposed social health insurance among government-owned company employees in Northwest Ethiopia: impli
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Acceptance of the proposed social health insurance among government-owned company employees in Northwest Ethiopia: implications for starting social health insurance implementation Abuneh Zemene1, Adane Kebede2, Asmamaw Atnafu2 and Tsegaye Gebremedhin2*
Abstract Background: Ethiopia is currently planning to introduce Social Health Insurance (SHI) that will lead to universal health coverage and assist a country to achieve its health system’s objectives and to prevent the catastrophic health expenditure. But there is no evidence until now about the level of acceptance of the proposed SHI among government-owned companies’ employees. Therefore, this study was intended to assess the acceptance of SHI and associated factors among government-owned companies’ employees in northwest Ethiopia. Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted from February 1 to April 30, 2019. A randomly selected 541 government-owned companies’ employees were participated in the study. A pretested selfadministered structured questionnaire was used that consisted sociodemographic and economic, health statusrelated factors, attitude (measured by 12 items), organizational related factors and knowledge about SHI (measured by 11 items). Finally, binary logistic regression analysis was performed and in the multivariable logistic regression analysis, a significant level at a p-value of < 0.05 and Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) were used to identify factors statistically associated with SHI acceptance. Results: Overall, 32% (95% CI: 27.7–36.2) of the government-owned companies’ employees accepted the proposed Ethiopian SHI scheme. Self-perceived health status (AOR: 8.55, 95% CI: 2.69–27.13), heard about SHI (AOR: 1.69, 95% CI: 1.12–2.54), coverage of medical healthcare cost (AOR: 0.60, 95% CI: 0.39–0.92), work experience (AOR: 0.49, 95% CI: 0.26–0.89) and quality of healthcare service at the facilities (AOR: 0.17, 95% CI: 0.04–0.71) were significantly associated with acceptance of SHI among government-owned companies’ employees. (Continued on next page)
* Correspondence: [email protected] 2 Department of Health Systems and Policy, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, P. O. Box: 196, Gondar, Ethiopia Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by s
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