In June 2011, the Government of Ethiopia rolled out a pilot Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) scheme. This paper … assesses scheme uptake. We examine whether the scheme is inclusive, the role of health status in inducing enrolment and the … effect of the quality of health care on uptake. By December 2012, scheme uptake had reached an impressive 45.5 percent of …

We analyse the effects of ill-health on household economic outcomes in Ethiopia, using three years of household panel … data and event history interviews. We examine the immediate effects of a variety of ill-health measures on health … expenditure and labour supply, the subsequent household coping responses, and finally the effect on household income and …

Based on household survey data and event history interviews undertaken in a highly shock prone country, this paper … idiosyncratic health shocks is met by reductions in savings, asset sales and especially a far greater reliance on borrowing as … notably absent in the case of health shocks. Across all shock types, households do not rely on gifts from family and friends …

Between 2000 and 2011, Ethiopia rapidly expanded its health-care infrastructure recording an 18-fold increase in the … number of health posts and a 7-fold increase in the number of health centers. However, annual per capita outpatient … utilization has increased only marginally. The extent to which individuals forego necessary health care, especially why and who …