This chapter examines the Nigerian health system through the lenses of political history, contemporary policy goals, financing, health status, domestic political economy, and the engagement between Nigeria-based experts and their external counterparts. Fundamental to this chapter is that wallowing in the...
Find more statistics on other topics about Nigeria with key insights such as death rate, infant mortality rate, and health expenditure as a share of gross domestic product. Read more Fertility rate in Nigeria from 2012 to 2022 Number of born children per woman5.835.835.745.745.665.665.625....
Health-related quality of life focuses on the impact of disease on health status as perceived by patients themselves, and its negative influence on physical, social and psychological aspects [31]. It also determines the effect of chronic ailments and their treatment on individuals [29,32]. The ...
The inadequately funded healthcare system has placed little emphasis on the care of older people because there are more-pressing health problems and funding for older people is limited. This paper advocates improved attention to the health needs of older people through improved budgetary allocation, ...
Health insurance in Nigeria Nigeria’s healthcare system was once comparable to the rest of the world in the 1970s and 1980s. However, due to a shortage of medical professionals, severe underfunding, a low insurance coverage rate, and poor data collection, it’s now one of the world’s...
Background:Primary health centres (PHCs) in Nigeria suffer critical shortages of health workers, aggravated by chronic absenteeism that has been attributed to insufficient resources to govern the system and adequately meet their welfare needs. However, the political drivers of this phenomenon are rarely...
or a danger to health and safety; (b) section 5.3 of the Central Bank of Nigeria Code of Corporate Governance for Banks and Discount Houses in Nigeria 2014, which provides for banks to have a whistleblowing policy to be made known to the employees and stakeholders, and the policy to inclu...
State and local governments collaborate on issues related to the development of agriculture and non-mineral natural resources, health services and primary, adult and vocational education. The Local Government The 3rdlevel which also is the last level of the types of government in Nigeria is the loc...
Before the pandemic, the Nigerian health system faced poor funding, poor staff remuneration, and poor working conditions [2]. However, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has further worsened those challenges and has created an atmosphere where Nigerian healthcare workers are further exhausted ...
Nigeria has a very large research system, with nearly 200 universities that employed more than 60,000 academic staff at the end of 2019. The country is also one of Africa’s largest producers of scientific research across all disciplines, surpassed only