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Poor Health Care Access in Nigeria: A Function of Fundamental Misconceptions and Misconstruction of the Health System

In: Healthcare Access - New Threats, New Approaches

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  • Vivien O. Abah

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Health care access in Nigeria is very limited in all dimensions due to factors within and beyond the health system. Misconception of primary health care and poor leadership resulted in a stunted health system development which has failed to align system structures and processes to the goal of achieving universal health access. Improving financial access through compulsory health insurance will not be enough to reverse this status without a holistic primary health care reform to correct the system misconstruction, achieve high-quality health care that is efficient, acceptable to the people and therefore sustainable and capable of driving growth and development for the health system and the country. A primary health care movement consisting of health professionals within the country and the diaspora and other stakeholders is needed to drive this process and overcome the inertia of political leadership in this regard.

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  • Vivien O. Abah, 2023. "Poor Health Care Access in Nigeria: A Function of Fundamental Misconceptions and Misconstruction of the Health System," Chapters, in: Ayse Emel Onal (ed.), Healthcare Access - New Threats, New Approaches, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:286733
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.108530
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    Keywords

    health care access; primary health care; reform; quality of care; health system organization;
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    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets

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