{"id":987514869,"date":"2022-01-16T15:19:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T14:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/documents\/factors-affecting-utilization-of-the-national-health-insurance-scheme-by-federal-civil-servants-in-rivers-state-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2022-01-16T15:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T14:19:27","slug":"factors-affecting-utilization-of-the-national-health-insurance-scheme-by-federal-civil-servants-in-rivers-state-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"documents","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/documents\/factors-affecting-utilization-of-the-national-health-insurance-scheme-by-federal-civil-servants-in-rivers-state-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Factors affecting utilization of the national health insurance scheme by federal civil servants in Rivers State, Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This study assessed the utilization of health care and associated factors amongst the federal civil servants using the NHIS in Rivers state, Nigeria. It is a descriptive cross-sectional study using self-administered questionnaires. Findings show that out of a total of 334 respondents, 83.8 per cent were enrolled for NHIS of which 72.5 per cent utilized the services of the scheme. This shows a higher unitisation rate. Although, 43.9 per cent of the respondents made payments at a point of access to health care services, overall there was a reduction in out-of- pocket payment. Possession of NHIS card, the attitude of health workers, and patients\u2019 satisfaction were found to significantly affect utilization in the state.<br \/>\nThe full paper can be accessed using the link below<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study assessed the utilization of health care and associated factors amongst the federal civil servants using the NHIS in Rivers state, Nigeria. It is a descriptive cross-sectional study using self-administered questionnaires. Findings show that out of a total of 334 respondents, 83.8 per cent were enrolled for NHIS of which 72.5 per cent utilized&#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":[129],"document_type":[2337],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987514869"}],"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=987514869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987514869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987514869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987514869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987514869"},{"taxonomy":"document_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document_type?post=987514869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}