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## Background Health insurance provides access to health care with financial risk protection. Knowledge and attitude have been found to influence enrolment in community-based health insurance, which avoids catastrophic health-care expenditure. However, knowledge and attitude levels towards health insurance are not well studied. The objective of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitude level of the informal workers of the Bahir Dar city towards community-based health insurance. ## Methods A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted with systematically selected 335 informal workers. We conducted structured face-to-face interviews using a newly developed and validated questionnaire. The collected data were coded and then entered into Epi data and exported to SPSS software for analysis. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify potential associations between the study variables. ## Results Out of 325 informal workers, 51% of them had good knowledge of community-based health insurance, while 56% of participants had a favorable attitude towards community-based health insurance. Being single (AOR=3.4, 95% CI; 1.3, 9.0), daily laborer (AOR=2.73, 95% CI; 1.36

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Author

Getasew Mulat Bantie; Ashenafi Abate Woya; Birhanu Mengist Zewdie

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)