Table 2 Health and health related factors of the study participants, Gombora District, South Ethiopia, 2020
Description | Frequency | Percent | |
|---|---|---|---|
Self-reported health status of the household | Poor | 52 | 12.8 |
Medium | 172 | 42.3 | |
Good | 183 | 44.9 | |
Persons with chronic illness and/or disability in the household | Yes | 171 | 42 |
No | 236 | 58 | |
Any illness encountered during the past 12 months | Yes | 179 | 44 |
No | 228 | 56 | |
Bought medical treatment for recent episode | Yes | 178 | 99.4 |
No | 1 | 0.6 | |
Got treatment | Yes | 167 | 93.3 |
No | 12 | 6.7 | |
Place of treatment | Private Health Facility | 18 | 10.8 |
Public Health Center | 48 | 28.7 | |
Public Hospital | 79 | 47.3 | |
Traditional healer & local drug vendor | 22 | 13.2 | |
Reason for visiting health facility | The HF was physically accessible The HF was not expensive | 62 21 | 37.3 12.7 |
The health service was effective | 77 | 46.4 | |
HF not too crowded | 6 | 3.6 | |
Reason for not getting treatment | No enough money | 8 | 66.7 |
Self-limiting | 3 | 25 | |
Too far location | 1 | 8.3 | |
Coverage of the health care cost | Self | 177 | 98.9 |
Community | 2 | 1.1 | |
Satisfaction with health care service and costs | Very dissatisfied | 15 | 8.4 |
Dissatisfied | 61 | 34.1 | |
Neutral | 6 | 3.3 | |
Satisfied | 73 | 40.8 | |
Very satisfied | 24 | 13.4 | |
Perceived quality of the health care service in the district | Very low | 12 | 6.7 |
Low | 71 | 39.6 | |
Neutral | 3 | 1.7 | |
High | 78 | 43.6 | |
Very high | 15 | 8.4 | |
Concern of the household for covering health care costs | Very difficult | 21 | 11.7 |
Difficult | 105 | 58.7 | |
Not difficult | 53 | 29.6 | |
Means of getting money for health care payment | Borrow from someone | 37 | 20.7 |
Assisted by relatives | 5 | 2.8 | |
Under taken extra work | 28 | 15.6 | |
Means of getting money for health care payment | Sell capital assets (cows) Drew from the saving | 82 27 | 45.8 15.1 |
Borrow money for medical costs within last year | Yes | 85 | 47.5 |
No | 94 | 52.5 | |
The nearest conventional health institution to the respondents’ home | Health center | 289 | 71 |
Private clinic | 37 | 9.1 | |
Government hospital | 81 | 19.9 | |