Catastrophic and impoverishing out-of-pocket health expenditure in Ethiopia: Evidence from the Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey

Abstract

Out of pocket payment remains one of the ways to finance health care in Ethiopia accounting for 31%. These out of pocket health expense leads citizens’ face catastrophic and impoverishing expenditure. The most recent survey-based study of catastrophic and impoverishing health expenditure was done from the 2015/16 consumption and expenditure survey with finding of 2.1% and 1% respectively.