Table 2 Health and health related situations in Debub Bench District, Southwest Ethiopia, 2013
Descriptions | Freq (%) | |
|---|---|---|
Self-reported health status of the household (n = 808) | Very poor | 50 (6.2) |
Poor | 166 (20.5) | |
Medium | 270 (33.4) | |
High | 224 (27.7) | |
Very high | 98 (12.1) | |
Persons with chronic illness and/or disability in the household (n = 808) | No | 747 (92.5) |
Yes | 61 (7.5) | |
Any illness encountered during the past 3 mths (n = 808) | No | 558 (69.1) |
Yes | 250 (30.9) | |
Seek of medical treatment for the recent episode (n = 250) | No | 19 (7.6) |
Yes | 231 (92.4) | |
Get treatment (n = 231) | No | 12 (5.2) |
Yes | 219 (94.8) | |
Place of treatment (n = 219) | Private Heath Facility | 90 (41.1) |
Public health center | 65 (29.7) | |
Public hospital | 49 (22.4) | |
Other (self-treatment, traditional healer and local drug vendor) | 15 (6.8) | |
Reasons for going there (n = 219) | The HF was physically accessible | 104 (47.5) |
The HF was not expensive | 18 (8.2) | |
The health facility not too crowded | 19 (8.7) | |
The health service was effective | 66 (30.1) | |
Other (specify) | 12 (5.5) | |
Reasons for not getting treatment (n = 12) | No enough money | 9 (75.0) |
Others (too far, self limiting) | 3 (25.0) | |
Coverage of the health care cost (n = 219) | Self | 204 (93.2) |
Others (free, community) | 15 (6.8) | |
Satisfaction with health care service and costs (n = 219) | Very dissatisfied | 23 (10.5) |
Dissatisfied | 61 (27.9) | |
Neutral | 8 (3.7) | |
Satisfied | 111 (50.7) | |
Very satisfied | 16 (7.3) | |
Perceived quality of the health care service in the district (n = 219) | Very low | 20 (9.1) |
Low | 76 (34.7) | |
Neutral | 24 (11.0) | |
High | 87 (39.7) | |
Very high | 12 (5.5) | |
Concern of the household for covering health care costs (n = 219) | Very difficult | 77 (35.2) |
Difficult | 110 (50.2) | |
Not difficult | 32 (14.6) | |
Means of getting money for health care payment (n = 187) | Drew from the savings | 38 (20.3) |
Borrow from someone | 27 (14.4) | |
Assisted by relatives | 68 (36.4) | |
Undertaken extra work | 2 (1.1) | |
Sell capital assets such as cows | 33 (17.6) | |
Cut back on other things, food, etc. | 19 (10.2) | |
Borrow money for medical costs within last year (n = 808) | No | 530 (65.6) |
Yes | 278 (34.4) | |
The nearest conventional health institution to the respondents’ home (n = 808) | Health center | 373 (46.2) |
Clinic (Private) | 367 (45.4) | |
Hospital (Gov) | 68 (8.4) | |