Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) by Federal Civil Servants (FCSs) in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) Federal Capital Territory (FCT)

📄 Project Abstract

The knowledge of, attitude towards, and practice of health insurance are now gaining wider popularity day by day among the nations of the world, especially third world countries whose health care financing had, hitherto, been adjured grossly inadequate (Afolayan-Oloye, 2008). Health Insurance as a health care financing mechanism has become a sort-after approach to the problems of financing health care all over the world. The current concern with financing, and the specific interest in health insurance is often the result of parallel trend: The recognition of basic health care for all citizens as a right on the one hand, and the difficulties faced by governments in developing and maintaining resources to provide health care through general taxation revenue on the other (Ron, 1993). The World Health Organization (WHO) has been giving tremendous support and cooperation to nations that pursue their citizen's welfare through health insurance. Nations equally are channeling large chunk of th...