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The Third Development Plan (1975—80) for Nigeria focused on the inequality in the distribution of medical facilities and health manpower in the country. The Plan, therefore, accelerated health manpower production and aimed to reduce the imbalance in the distribution of facilities. The Fourth Plan...
OBJECTIVES: - Nigeria has always focused on inequalities in the distribution of health facilities and health manpower; aimed to reduce the imbalance in the distribution of facilities and ensure a more equitable distribution of health facilities and manpower for every part of the Country in all the...
Marginalised poor populations, characterised by poverty and social exclusion, suffer disproportionately from hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections and encounter substantial disparities in access to healthcare. This has further exacerbated the global HBV burden and precluded progress towards HBV elimination. This...
Results Contributing factors to health care inequity in Nigeria are multifarious, and include lack of government health spending, outdated allocation matrices, failure to leverage effectively the private sector, disparities in payment for health services, and lack of innovation. Discussion It is important...
Background: The healthcare sector is one of the most important sectors in the development of each country, and the disparities in the distribution of health resources will reduce the level of development. The aim of this study was to examine the physical accessibility and degree of development ...
in the sub-district centers is relatively expensive for the poor. Yiengprugsawa et al.[10]showed that disparities in quality of services and access to specialized clinical facilities arise within a UHC system. For example, Thailand, even though has witnessed a remarkable success in itsNational ...
A small area model to assess temporal trends and sub-national disparities in healthcare quality Here, authors present an approach to assess subnational healthcare quality, leveraging health facility survey data. The method jointly estimates indicators over space and time, and may provide insights to...
Disparities in air pollution attributable mortality in the US population by race/ethnicity and sociodemographic factors Article01 July 2024 Assessing long-term effects of gaseous air pollution exposure on mortality in the United States using a variant of difference-in-differences analysis ...
In Nigeria, Jurisdictional partitioning is seen as a means of solving problems of domination, discrimination and inequality in the spatial allocation of social and economic infrastructure. This paper assesses the impact of partitioning in this regard, using hospital facilities as a test case. The resu...