Assessment of utilization of health care services and the associated factors among adult fee-waiver beneficiaries in Hawassa, southern Ethiopia: A community based cross sectional study

• Published in: Journal of public health research Vol. 11; no. 4; p. 227990362211399
• Main Authors: Damte Tegegn, Biruk, Negeri, Keneni Gutema
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.10.2022
• Subjects: Original; utilization; Fee waiver; health care; health expenditure, out of pocket

Background: Over the past decades, developing countries like Ethiopia have resorted to the implementation of user fees in public health care systems. Nonetheless, evidences suggest that user fees affect the poor negatively. Therefore, Ethiopian government introduced fee-waiver mechanism in 1998 aimi...