CONSUMER AWARENESS AND PERCEPTION OF NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME (NHIS) HEALTHCARE SERVICES IN KOGI EAST

📄 Project Abstract

Social Health Insurance (SHI) is a health sector financing alternative to the cash-and-carry system that had been in operation in the past. The health burden in countries world over has continued to escalate. The most vulnerable are the poor while the wealthy are the healthier. This means that whereas the economic statuses of the poor could not accommodate their health needs, the wealthy seem to spend less (in percentage terms) of their income on healthcare needs. One of the basic principles of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the 1946 constitution states that the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of healthcare is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, political belief, economic or social condition (WHO, 2006). This declaration brought to the fore one of the greatest challenges of governance in this century. It puts on governments the burden of creating and maintaining a healthcare system that will ensure complete physical, ment...