TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Pages
Title page ii
Certification iii
Dedication iv
Acknowledgement v
Abstract vi
Table of contents vii
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
- Background of the study 1
- Statement of problem 3
- Objectives of the study 4
- Research questions 4
- Hypotheses 5
- Significance of study 5
- Scope and limitations of the study 6
References 8
CHAPTER
TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 An overview of Healthcare Service Delivery in Nigeria 9
2.2 Objectives of National Healthcare Service Delivery 12
2.3 Imperatives of free Healthcare Services 13
2.4 Financing of Healthcare Services in Nigeria 14
2.5 National Health Insurance Scheme 18
2.6 National health Insurance Scheme Programmes 21
2.7 Excluded Services 23
2.8 Management of National Health Insurance Scheme 24
2.8.1 Organisation structure 24
2.8.2 National Health Insurance Council 25
2.8.3 Health Maintenance Organizations 26
2.8.4 Health Service Providers 28
2.8.5 Funding of NHIS 29
2.8.6 Procedures and Coverage 30
2.9 Benefits of NHIS 32
2.10 Evaluation of NHIS 37
References 53
CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Design 56
3.2 Location of Study 56
3.3 Sources of Data 57
3.4 Population 57
3.5 Sample Size Determination and Sampling Technique 58
3.6 Instrument of data collection 59
3.7 Data collection procedure 59
3.8 Analytical Technique 60
CHAPTER FOUR: DATA
PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
4.1 Presentation of Data 62
4.2 Analysis of Data 62
4.3 Test of hypotheses 78
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY,
CONCLUSION AND FINDINGS
5.1 Summary of Findings 83
5.2 Conclusion 85
5.3 Recommendations 86
Bibliography 88
Appendix 91
Questionnaire 92
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
One of the basic needs of the people
of any nation is good health. This incorporates physical fitness, adequate nutrition
and food security, high life expectancy, absence of epidemic and endemic
disease and efficient healthcare service delivery. Mfon (2005:21) expresses
that a nation with an effective healthcare system is a wealthy nation and is
development –oriented in the social context. In Nigeria, however, the health
situation is a manifestation of malnutrition and low life expectancy for the
majority, high incidence of epidemics and endemic diseases as well as
inefficient healthcare service delivery.
It
is in recognition of the significance of good health system that the Nigerian
government has been consistent in its quest for an efficient healthcare
delivery to be perpetually established in Nigeria.
It
has been emphasized that no meaningful development can take place in the
country if the greater proportion of the populace have no access to effective
healthcare services and live in squalor and disease. The rapidly growing
population therefore need adequate healthcare services for effective physical
and intelligence development. Lambo (2006:12) observes that there was a sharp
contradiction in the nations healthcare services in the periods of 1960s/70s
and 1980s/20002. in the former, healthcare delivery was an effective term of
cost and coverage with the government catering adequately for the cost of
health services. But since the 1980s, the financing of health services has
risen so much that the government has found it difficult to bear the burden in
much the sand way was it did in the earlier periods.
Ugbanmadu
(2003:24) observes that health services have become a matter of concern to the
government given the dividing finances of the government which began in the
1980s.
Thus,
when the Obsanjo administration came into being on May, 29 1999 the nation’s
health sector was near comatose. Hospitals were in bad shape. Community and
inter-sectoral collaboration was minimal. Ugbaja (2007:19) remarks that
resources devoted to this vital social services were insufficient. Worst still,
there was outright inadequacy of drugs and other consumables in most government
health facilities. There was also paucity of qualified manpower in the
government hospitals. The available ones were not motivated while facilities
and equipment were poorly maintained.
Other
lapses of the past included inadequate manpower development to meet modern
trend and improper monitoring of
services rendered to the public among others. From inception, therefore,
it was clear to Obasanjo’s administration that the sector needed an urgent
surgical operation.
Consequently,
Oduenyi (2002:42) notes that in October 2003, federal Government organized a
national conference on Alternative Healthcare financing in Nigeria. Participants were drawn
from private and public health institutions and agencies through out Nigeria. They
examined the inadequacies of health service, the casual factors as well as
remedies for inadequate health services financing in Nigeria. Interalia, the conference
ended with a call for improved health services financing.
Thus,
in line with economic reforms in the country, health sector reform gained
momentum with adequate health service
financing as its cardinal objective, this resulted in the inception of the
National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)
on June 6, 2003 by ex-president Olusegun
Obasanjo. The scheme had earlier been launched by the then Head Of State, late
General Sani Abacha on 15th
October,1997.
- STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
The
National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is faced with several problem
which hampered its effective implementation in the health sector.
First, there are administrative
problems which consist in the delay of remittances from government and government establishments to the National
Health Insurance Scheme (Council) and from the NHIS to Health Maintenance
Organizations (HMOS) down to Health service providers.
Second, there are inadequacies of
health facilities and medical personnel to cover the nation sufficiently under
the scheme. This is due to limited number of
HMOs and HSPs registered in the scheme.
Thirdly, many Health Service
providers are either withdraw from the scheme or refusing to accept new
enrollees.
Again, inadequate Logistic support
facilities from the government and donor-agencies limit the coverage of the
scheme so far to the public sector thus leaving the larger private sector out
of the scheme.
Finally, there is public skeptism and apathy towards insurance in general and widespread ignorance about social health insurance. All these problems militate against effective implementation of the NHIS in Nigeria.
MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME (NHIS) IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: ISSUES, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
