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The role of community-based approaches in achieving universal health coverage: addressing the Nigerian narrative
Universal health coverage (UHC) is aimed at ensuring that individuals and communities have affordable access to essential health care services without facing financial hardship. Achieving UHC and the third sustainable development goal of the United Nations requires that health systems transition fro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10205343/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37228928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000000443 |
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author | Effiong, Fortune B. Ogbonna, Chiemela P. Agughalam, Prosper I. Okwukwu, Miracle O. Dike, Innocent C. Elebesunu, Emmanuel E. Uwishema, Olivier |
author_facet | Effiong, Fortune B. Ogbonna, Chiemela P. Agughalam, Prosper I. Okwukwu, Miracle O. Dike, Innocent C. Elebesunu, Emmanuel E. Uwishema, Olivier |
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description | Universal health coverage (UHC) is aimed at ensuring that individuals and communities have affordable access to essential health care services without facing financial hardship. Achieving UHC and the third sustainable development goal of the United Nations requires that health systems transition from a vertical, top-down, curative approach toward one that puts people at the core of health care services, such as community-centered health interventions. Nigeria operates a decentralized health care system with the least focus on primary health care, making access to quality, and affordable health care for several citizens a challenge as the major percentage of the Nigerian population relies on primary health care services. The limited number of health care workers, the poor economic state, the inadequate health financing structures and high illiteracy rates have led to challenges such as low health service availability, hesitancy to utilize health interventions, high out-of-pocket expenditure rates, and health misinformation. These can be effectively tackled at the community level by revamping primary health care services, adequate and sustainable health financing, establishing Ward Development Committees, and the involvement of community stakeholders in health policy implementation. Employing such community-based approaches will ensure continuous progress of the Nigerian health care system toward UHC. |
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spelling | pubmed-102053432023-05-24 The role of community-based approaches in achieving universal health coverage: addressing the Nigerian narrative Effiong, Fortune B. Ogbonna, Chiemela P. Agughalam, Prosper I. Okwukwu, Miracle O. Dike, Innocent C. Elebesunu, Emmanuel E. Uwishema, Olivier Ann Med Surg (Lond) Reviews Universal health coverage (UHC) is aimed at ensuring that individuals and communities have affordable access to essential health care services without facing financial hardship. Achieving UHC and the third sustainable development goal of the United Nations requires that health systems transition from a vertical, top-down, curative approach toward one that puts people at the core of health care services, such as community-centered health interventions. Nigeria operates a decentralized health care system with the least focus on primary health care, making access to quality, and affordable health care for several citizens a challenge as the major percentage of the Nigerian population relies on primary health care services. The limited number of health care workers, the poor economic state, the inadequate health financing structures and high illiteracy rates have led to challenges such as low health service availability, hesitancy to utilize health interventions, high out-of-pocket expenditure rates, and health misinformation. These can be effectively tackled at the community level by revamping primary health care services, adequate and sustainable health financing, establishing Ward Development Committees, and the involvement of community stakeholders in health policy implementation. Employing such community-based approaches will ensure continuous progress of the Nigerian health care system toward UHC. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10205343/ /pubmed/37228928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000000443 Text en Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
spellingShingle | Reviews Effiong, Fortune B. Ogbonna, Chiemela P. Agughalam, Prosper I. Okwukwu, Miracle O. Dike, Innocent C. Elebesunu, Emmanuel E. Uwishema, Olivier The role of community-based approaches in achieving universal health coverage: addressing the Nigerian narrative |
title | The role of community-based approaches in achieving universal health coverage: addressing the Nigerian narrative |
title_full | The role of community-based approaches in achieving universal health coverage: addressing the Nigerian narrative |
title_fullStr | The role of community-based approaches in achieving universal health coverage: addressing the Nigerian narrative |
title_full_unstemmed | The role of community-based approaches in achieving universal health coverage: addressing the Nigerian narrative |
title_short | The role of community-based approaches in achieving universal health coverage: addressing the Nigerian narrative |
title_sort | role of community-based approaches in achieving universal health coverage: addressing the nigerian narrative |
topic | Reviews |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10205343/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37228928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000000443 |
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