Healthcare services quality in the rural health centers and its impact on Nigeria citizens Cover Image

Healthcare services quality in the rural health centers and its impact on Nigeria citizens
Healthcare services quality in the rural health centers and its impact on Nigeria citizens

Author(s): Joachim Abolaji Abiodun, John Obamiro Kolade
Subject(s): National Economy, Business Economy / Management, Health and medicine and law, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: Health Centre; Primary Health Centre (PHC); Healthcare Customers/ Users; Service Quality; Providers; Empathy;

Summary/Abstract: Empowering patients and understanding their views should be central to activities at the Primary Health Care Level. This is because community cooperation and involvement is a high priority of the primary Health Care. This study, based on administered questionnaire to users of primary Health Care examines Patients/ Users view of quality of care at the primary level in other to assist care providers to be more responsive to patients needs and, hence, deliver better quality of care. The study employed an additive compensatory model to integrate and stratify respondent’s responses and then subsequently correlate key service quality attribute to determine association. The findings suggest the need to emphasize ‘empathy’ for care providers and the provision of a reasonable level of physical facilities to encourage care seekers/ users to place ‘faith’ in primary facilities and hence capacity utilization at the primary level facilities.

  • Issue Year: 57/2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 305-312
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English