کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4198254 1279046 2010 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Informal payments for healthcare: Differences in expenditures from consumers and providers perspectives for treatment of malaria in Nigeria
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
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Informal payments for healthcare: Differences in expenditures from consumers and providers perspectives for treatment of malaria in Nigeria
چکیده انگلیسی

ObjectivesTo examine differences in malaria treatment expenditures from the perspectives of consumers and providers in southeast Nigeria.MethodsThe study was conducted using household surveys, provider surveys and exit poll interviews. The amount of money that the providers claimed to charge their patients for malaria treatment services was compared with the expenditures that the respondents actually incurred for malaria treatment services from the same providers.ResultsThe average expenditure for malaria treatment from the consumers as elicited from both the household survey and exit poll interviews was $6.30, while it was $2.20 for the providers from information from the provider survey. The widest gaps between expenditures for consumers and amounts purportedly charged by providers were found in public healthcare facilities. All socio-economic status groups and residents of urban and rural areas were exposed to informal payments.ConclusionThe differences in malaria treatment expenditures from consumers’ and providers’ perspectives point to high levels of informal payments, which worsen the economic burden of the disease and may predispose to catastrophic health spending. The informal payments are personal gains to the individual providers but represent a loss to the society, in terms of higher healthcare costs. Such payments should be addressed by policy makers so as to make treatment of malaria less costly to patients.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Health Policy - Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2010, Pages 72–79
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