Ewunetie Mekashaw Bayked, Husien Nurahmed Toleha, Segenet Zewdie, Asnakew Molla Mekonen, Birhanu Demeke Workneh, Mesfin Haile Kahissay
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Abstract
Background: The viability of community-based health insurance programs depends on beneficiary satisfaction, and healthcare systems evaluate performance through patient reports and ratings to ensure effectiveness and service quality. To our knowledge, Ethiopia lacks national pooled data on the satisfaction of community-based health insurance beneficiaries and related factors. As a result, this review aimed to evaluate the level of beneficiaries' satisfaction with the scheme's services and associated factors in Ethiopia.
Methods: Database searches on Scopus, Hinari, PubMed, Google Scholar, and Semantic Scholar were conducted on September 1st, 2022. Thirteen studies were chosen for review from the search results. Checklists from the Joan Briggs Institute were used to evaluate the risk of bias for the included studies. The data were extracted using a 2019 Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and analyzed using Stata 17. The odds ratios at p-values less than 0.05 with a 95% confidence interval were used to evaluate the effect estimates.
Results: The pooled satisfaction of beneficiaries with community-based health insurance was found to be 66.0% (95% CI = 57-76%) and was found to be influenced by socio-demographic, health service-related, the scheme's related factors, and the beneficiaries' knowledge of it. The beneficiary satisfaction levels were highest in the Amhara region, at 69.0% (95% CI = 59-79%), followed by Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples' Region (SNNPR) at 67.0% (95% CI = 40-94%), Oromia at 63.0% (95% CI = 58-68%), and Addis Ababa at 53.0% (95% CI = 45-62%).
Conclusion: Even though there was a moderate level of satisfaction, there are indications that the quality of health services and the coverage of the entire population lag behind, necessitating greater efforts to achieve universal health coverage.
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of cost-effectiveness analysis, including conceptual or methodological work, economic evaluations, and policy analysis related to resource allocation at a national or international level. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation is aimed at health economists, health services researchers, and policy-makers with an interest in enhancing the flow and transfer of knowledge relating to efficiency in the health sector. Manuscripts are encouraged from researchers based in low- and middle-income countries, with a view to increasing the international economic evidence base for health.