Demand For Health Care Services In Nigeria: Implications For Poverty Reduction

Demand For Health Care Services In Nigeria: Implications For Poverty Reduction

Preface

Using the2002/03 Uganda National Household Survey data we empirically examine the nature and determinants of individualities ’ decision to seek care on condition of illness reporting. The major findings include cost of care is accumulative and sustainability reduces the health care application for any formal provider by the poorer individualities afters controlling for other factors. In other words, indeed among public installations cost of care remains a hedge to application of these services. Second, there’s no mistrustfulness that putting in place strategies aimed at adding the income of the poor will increase their application of the health installations, though the impact will be advanced for private care. Third, besides income and cost and cost of care, other factors in particular qualify of services, education and physical access proxied by distance to the installations are important determinants of health care application. Four, as much as it’s important for the government to ameliorate provision of services in the public installations, impulses should be put in place to encourage and strengthen the part of the private sector. At the same time there’s need, to put in place a nonsupervisory system, set norms and a monitoring frame to insure quality of services and control prices in the private sector especially in the private for profitsub-sector. easily there’s an adding preference for the sector’s services indeed after the invalidation of cost sharing.