Author(s)

Ayodele Bamidele Ogungbemi^1*, Inioluwa Racheal Ogungbemi², Samson Aderemi Ajiboye³

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Economics, College of Social and Management Sciences, Tai Solarin University of Education, Nigeria.

²Department of Counsellor Education, Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.

³Department of Social Sciences, School of Liberal Studies, Yaba College of Technology, Nigeria.

Corresponding Author

Ayodele Bamidele Ogungbemi

ABSTRACT

This study examined the pricing of health care service delivery in Nigeria and references health care service providers in the Ijebu-Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State. The pricing of health care is influenced by the accessibility availability and utilization level of health care infrastructure; this will ‘determine whether the health care price will be highly charged, moderately charged or lowly charged since the cost of quality healthcare is very high in Nigeria and with an increasing deteriorating living standard where 50% of the entire population in Nigeria could be said to have no access to quality healthcare, simply because they cannot afford such services even if they should demand them. The study made use of primary and secondary sources; primary data was collected through a well-designed questionnaire, interview, and observational studies. The questionnaire was appropriate because it examined the perception of people on the pricing of health care services. The questionnaire was used as a research instrument to obtain data from the field survey. Secondary data were journal articles seminar papers, textbooks, etc. The study population is very large, so 100 respondents were selected from the private and public hospitals in the Ijebu- Ode local government area of Ogun State while 100 respondents were selected from the private and public hospitals in the Ijebu- Ode local government area of Ogun state while 100 respondents are also sample from traditional health care services provider. The respondents that patronize herb sellers and traditional doctors in Oke- Aje Market of Ijebu- Ode are sampled for the study. The study concludes that Alternative medicine is cheaper than modern medicine. The cost of orthodox medicine is increased by modern health technology, which in many cases is inappropriate, or irrelevant to the immediate needs of the people, while in many cases in inappropriate, or irrelevant to the immediate needs of the people, while in traditional medicine, the herbs can be sourced locally within the community. Traditional medicine enjoys. This could be due partly to the inaccessibility of modern medicine, but the major contributory factor is the fact that traditional medicine blends readily into the socio-cultural lie of the people whose culture is deeply rooted.

KEYWORDS

The pricing of health care; Health care services; Traditional medicine; Ijebu- Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State

CITE THIS PAPER

Ayodele Bamidele Ogungbemi, Inioluwa Racheal Ogungbemi, Samson Aderemi Ajiboye. Assessing the pricing of healthcare services providers in Ijebu-Ode local government Ogun state, Nigeria. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medical Research. 2024, 6(4): 15-26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/jpmr3021.

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