NDLI: Willingness to Pay for Health Care Sevices by Rural Households in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria

Please wait, while we are loading the content...

Willingness to Pay for Health Care Sevices by Rural Households in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Oluwafemi, Zacheaus Olaniyi Oluwagbohumi, A.
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	This study was carried out to examine the willingness to pay for health care services among rural households. The origin of data used was of primary source. Structured questionnaires that contained socio-economic and the health status information were administered randomly among the rural households in the area. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to perform the analysis. The result indicated that income of the respondents in the study area is relatively low and this could be attributed to the observed low level of economic activity in the area. The determinants of willingness to pay for health care service as a function of age, No of wife, earning per month, expenditure on health and frequency sickness and cost of treatment.in the study area. It is recommended that more effort should be geared towards improvement on the economic activities of the people living in the area. The multiplier effects of improved economics activities would improve their health status, income and generally, their overall standard of living
Starting Page	48
Ending Page	55
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Volume Number	10
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://journals.slidenafrica.org/index.php/CAVAII/article/download/174/167
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in