HEALTHCARE DELIVERY AND FORMS OF TREATMENT OPTIONS IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIAN COMMUNITIES
- S. Akinmayọwa Lawal
- Joseph Barry
- Femi Omololu
- ( paper pages. 1 - 20 )
Abstract
In Nigeria, multiple forms of healthcare delivery are widely available to people,making health care increasingly complex. As the population of the countrycontinues to grow, the provision of effective health services has remained achallenge causing low performance in service delivery in the entire health system.This study examined the nature of healthcare delivery in emerging communities ofsouthwest Nigeria. A survey, comprised of 405 households, was conducted acrossMagboro, Ibafo and Mowe communities of Ogun State. The study found that, ascomplex as the healthcare delivery system is in Nigeria, the communities exhibitedmuch wider complexities, as multiple forms of treatment options were practised.These ranged from self-medication to group-prescribed medication (GPM) in theform of household-prescribed medication, neighbour-prescribed medication, andcommunity-prescribed medication. The combined use of orthodox and traditionalmedicine remained high at 32.7% despite the high preference for orthodoxmedicine (59.2%) over traditional medicine (8.1%). There was significantdifference (p-value= 0.003) across the communities on the various types of healthfacilities (X 2 =19.652 a ); but there was no significant difference (p-value=0.586)across communities on the practice of self-medication, household-prescribedmedication, neighbour-prescribed medication and community-prescribedmedication (X 2 =4.672 a ). The study recommended increased health education andadvocacy to educate people on their health and treatment options.
Citation
S. Akinmayọwa Lawal, Joseph Barry, Femi Omololu.
2018.
"HEALTHCARE DELIVERY AND FORMS OF TREATMENT OPTIONS IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIAN COMMUNITIES"
The Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies,
60 (1): 1 - 20.
JEL Classification
I11, P36
