Contributing Factors for Health Commodity Stock out At Health Facilities in Bahir Dar City-Ethiopia

Yewulsow DellelleD

dc.contributor.author	Yewulsow DellelleD
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-04T06:25:24Z
dc.date.available	2020-09-04T06:25:24Z
dc.date.issued	2020-09
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11177
dc.description.abstract	Back ground: Millions of people do not have access to health commodity particularly those essential drugs. Mortality figures across developing regions reflect a huge burden of illness that can be substantially reduced if carefully selected; pharmaceuticals are available and appropriately used. Health commodity stock out is common in health facilities, which result in service interruption and eventually leads to missing of the life of an individual. Objective: objective of the study is to find out contributing factors for health commodity stock out at health facilities in Bahir Dar city. Methods: The study was done using quantitative methods. A total of 110 questionnaire was distributed and 92(83. 6 %) were collected back and used for the analysis. Besides 11 health centers and six hospitals were visited and all the required information were included in the study. Result: - The study shows that Health Commodity stock out is found to be regular situation at health facility with the overall mean and standard deviation of (M=4.197, SD= 0.266). Essential health commodity stock out is more regularly observed followed by vital and non-essential. Health commodity stock out has negative, significant and weak correlation with practice of incentives and health commodity logistics cycle at health facility evidenced by P value less than 0.05. Regression analysis shows that adjusted R 2 value of 0.164 which implies that 16.4 % changes in stock out of health commodity could be attributed to changes in practicing incentives, logistics cycle and ICT at 95 % confidence interval and the remaining 83.6 % is unexplained by the predictors included in the model. Conclusion: Health commodity stock out is regular situation at health facility hence, proper practice of Incentives for health Commodity Inventory management staff and Health commodity Logistics Cycle at health facility could have a possibility to improve availability. Recommendation: All stake holders; including health professional associations, Drug expert’s suppliers, health facility directors & financial managers, supply chain managers and policymakers should work hand in hand with commitment in order to minimize stock out at health facility. Suggestions: Health commodity availability is a key factor to provide health service at health facility so further studies has to be conducted in related topics to identify contributing factors so as to minimize health commodity stock out at health facility and intervene accordingly.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT	en_US
dc.title	Contributing Factors for Health Commodity Stock out At Health Facilities in Bahir Dar City-Ethiopia	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US