Demand for modern health care services and the incidence of poverty in Nigeria: a case study of Ilorin Metropolis
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9 avril 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.ifra.807
- isbn: 9789788025139
- eisbn: 9791092312201
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Gafar .T. Ijaiya et al., « Demand for modern health care services and the incidence of poverty in Nigeria: a case study of Ilorin Metropolis », Institut français de recherche en Afrique, ID : 10.4000/books.ifra.807
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This paper examines the impact of poverty on the demand for modem health care services in llorin metropolis, the study, carried out using a structural questionnaire to 510 heads of households, reported that 349 of them are poor, based on these samples, the ability of the heads of households to seek modem health care service was also examined, the data were analyzed by multiple linear regression, the regression results show that the incidence of poverty in llorin metropolis is inversely related to the demand for modem health care services, this indicates that the poorer the people, the less they are able to demand for modem health care services when they are sick, the paper further suggests measures that will enable the poor in llorin metropolis to have access to modem health care services prominent among them are the provision of subsidies by the government and greater commitment in the delivery of modem health care services.