The Contribution of Heath Care Financing for Enhancing Drug Supply Capacity in Public Health Centers in Addis Ababa in the case of Bole Sub city

Abstract

The main purpose the study is to examine the contribute Health Care Financing to drug supply of 10 health centers those found in Bole Sub City, Addis Ababa. The study is basically a survey that used both qualitative and quantitative approaches. For the purpose of data collection self-administered questionnaire was adopted, pre-tested and personally administered to the target population following the appropriate ethical procedures. Fifty employees (50), one hundred forty (140) incoming patients planned to collect questionnaires. Ten (10) Broad members and Four (4) from Addis Ababa Health Bureau & USAID Health Care Financing specialist respondents were sampled for interview and focus group discussion respectively, from the total populations of 200 employees, 400,000 community members, 90 board members and 4 from focal & technical person respectively using the sample size determination table developed by Yamen, (1967). Out of the distributed 190 questionnaires only 149 returned constituting 78.42% response rate. The findings of this study showed that the current performance of Health Care Financing improved the drug supply as well as the health service qualities of the selected health centers, but the yet to meet the demand of the community. Based on this the researcher recommended to strengthen the inventory controlling mechanism, proper and favorable drug storage, update current low user fee rate to integrate more money to health sector, to provide incentive and reward for the best performing employees and board members to tackle high employee turnover and create active board member and finally provide technical and administrative training to upgrade employees skills.