Healthcare in Nigeria is financed from a mixture of budgetary allocations, out-of-pocket spending, development funding from external donors and a small pool of social health insurance contributions. About 70% of the total health expenditure is out-of-pocket which places a financial burden on poore...
Healthcare jobs are notorious for long hours and erratic schedules, and many are considered “deskless” jobs, meaning workers spend much of their time on the move. In fact, it’s estimated that nurses in hospitals walk about five miles a day. ...
The estimated healthcare cost per patient when annualized was found to be 133,152.39 ($675.90), while the total annual healthcare cost for all the patients in the study per year was 12,250,020.00 ($62,182.84). Conclusions: On the background of poor remunerations, high unemployment, and ...
There is a paucity of knowledge on the cost of health care services in Ghana. This poses a challenge in the economic evaluation of programmes and inhibits policy makers in making decisions about allocation of resources to improve health care. This study
Related:Centres of IVF Treatment in Nigeria How the HSG Test is Done To perform the test, you’ll have to lie down on a table under a fluoroscope (X-ray imager). You’ll bend your knees and hold your legs apart. Your gynaecologist will insert a speculum into your vagina to keep it...
cost of treatmentbarrier to accesscontinuity of healthcareHealth ProfessionsPublicEnvironmental and Occupational HealthIn Nigeria, there are several barriers to access to effective mental healthcare, e.g. cost, distance to the mental health facility, social stigma, cultural beliefs, attitudes and taboos...
Antihypertensive use, prescription patterns, and cost of medications in a Teaching Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria Introduction: Hypertension has been reported as the strongest modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Aims: The aim of the study was to identify the most prescribed ...
There is probability of 97.3–100% that antivenoms are very cost-effective in the analyses. These demonstrate antivenom is highly cost-effective and compares favorably to other commonly funded healthcare interventions. Providing and broadening antivenom access throughout areas at risk in rural West ...
Bringing healthcare delivery closer to families through CHWs directly reduces the time and cost of every medical visit for the household and it is expected that it will also cause children to begin to be treated in better conditions, increasing the probability of recovery and/or reducing the ...
Numbeo is the world’s largest cost of living database. Numbeo is also a crowd-sourced global database of quality of life data: housing indicators, perceived crime rates, healthcare quality, transport quality, and other statistics. 9,331,119 prices in 12,056 cities entered by 833,309 contri...