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