{"id":987514854,"date":"2022-04-11T15:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/documents\/the-implications-of-health-financing-for-health-access-and-equity-in-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2022-04-11T15:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:19:19","slug":"the-implications-of-health-financing-for-health-access-and-equity-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"documents","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/documents\/the-implications-of-health-financing-for-health-access-and-equity-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Implications of health financing for health access and equity in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health financing is an important function of the health system and plays a key role in enabling progress towards Universal Health\u00a0Coverage by improving\u00a0effective\u00a0service coverage and ensuring adequate financial protection from impoverishment arising from health services utilization. Nigeria adopted the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2005 to improve financial risk protection and services utilisation, however as of 2021, the scheme only covered 4% of the population. This means a significant proportion of the population remains at risk of incurring catastrophic health expenditures.\u00a0In this study the author addresses the implications of the current healthcare financing in Nigeria on access and equity\u00a0and based on the findings made the following recommendations; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>need to strengthen the NHIS through policy reform to embrace fund pooling\/risk-sharing<br \/>\nsubsidization for the poor and the vulnerable<br \/>\nmandatory enrolment<br \/>\nand reducing fragmentation of NHIS.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nThe full article can be accessed using the link below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health financing is an important function of the health system and plays a key role in enabling progress towards Universal Health\u00a0Coverage by improving\u00a0effective\u00a0service coverage and ensuring adequate financial protection from impoverishment arising from health services utilization. Nigeria adopted the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2005 to improve financial risk protection and services utilisation, however&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[118,127,129,135],"document_type":[2321],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987514854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/documents"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987514854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987514854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987514854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987514854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987514854"},{"taxonomy":"document_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document_type?post=987514854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}