Researchers from University of Nigeria Report Recent Findings in Managed Care (Analysis of Household Wealth and Child Healthcare Utilization In Nigeria): Managed Care

2024 AUG 15 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Education Daily Report -- Researchers detail new data in Managed Care. According to news reporting from Nsukka, Nigeria, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “This study investigates the relationship between household wealth and child healthcare utilization in Nigeria. The study employed descriptive statistics and poison regression analysis with cross-sectional data sourced from a demographic and health survey.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Nigeria, “The results from the study indicate that wealth is statistically significant to child healthcare utilization or household decision on seeking healthcare services for their child. Also, education of the household head, cost of healthcare services, health insurance status of the child, age of child, and household size or number of household members are socioeconomic factors that impact child healthcare utilization in Nigeria. The study also finds that households in higher wealth index are more likely to seek healthcare for the child, while households with higher education and health insurance and those within the middle to richest wealth quintiles are more likely to seek appropriate healthcare for the child compared to those in the poorer to poorest wealth quintiles. The findings also indicate that cost of healthcare services is a major socioeconomic factor that influences child healthcare utilization. Low cost of healthcare services is likely to aid household demand for child healthcare compared to the high cost of healthcare services. In addition, the study finds that the demand for child healthcare falls with the age of the child. The study concludes that differences in the utilization of child healthcare among households may be caused by wealth inequality and other factors.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “This is supported by the fact that most households in the lower wealth quintile and socioeconomic status seek healthcare for the child from the traditional means and chemist instead of going to hospitals with qualify doctors and nurses.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Analysis of Household Wealth and Child Healthcare Utilization In Nigeria. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2024;15(1):547-562. Journal of the Knowledge Economy can be contacted at: Springer, One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, Ny, United States. (Springer - www.springer.com; Journal of the Knowledge Economy - http://www.springerlink.com/content/1868-7865/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Chinonso Akudo Okoro, University of Nigeria, Dept. of Psychology, Nsukka, Nigeria. Additional authors for this research include Anthony Orji, Celine Onyinyechi Obochi, Jonathan E. Ogbuabor and Onyinye Anthony-Orji.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-022-01056-0. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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