Treatment of uncomplicated malaria at public health facilities and medicine retailers in south-eastern NigeriaLindsay J Mangham
Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Malar J 10:155. 2011
..This study sought to determine the extent of the problem by collecting data as patients and caregivers leave health facilities, and determine what influences the treatment received...
- Malaria treatment perceptions, practices and influences on provider behaviour: comparing hospitals and non-hospitals in south-east Nigeria
Obinna Onwujekwe
Department of Health Administration and Management, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria
Malar J 8:246. 2009
..However, there are lots of problems with treatment provision. Hence, factors influencing treatment provision in hospitals and non-hospitals require further investigation in order to remedy the situation...
- Quality of anti-malarial drugs provided by public and private healthcare providers in south-east Nigeria
Obinna Onwujekwe
Department of Health Administration and Management, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria
Malar J 8:22. 2009
..The objective of the study was to determine the quality of drugs used for the treatment of malaria in a broad spectrum of public and private healthcare providers...
- Consumers stated and revealed preferences for community health workers and other strategies for the provision of timely and appropriate treatment of malaria in southeast Nigeria
Obinna Onwujekwe
Health Policy Research Group, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria
Malar J 5:117. 2006
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- Improving equity in malaria treatment: relationship of socio-economic status with health seeking as well as with perceptions of ease of using the services of different providers for the treatment of malaria in Nigeria
Obinna Onwujekwe
Department of Health Administration and Management, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria
Malar J 7:5. 2008
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- Constraints to universal coverage: inequities in health service use and expenditures for different health conditions and providers
Obinna Onwujekwe
Health Policy Research Group, Dept of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria
Int J Equity Health 10:50. 2011
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- Are there geographic and socio-economic differences in incidence, burden and prevention of malaria? A study in southeast Nigeria
Obinna Onwujekwe
Department of Health Administration and Management, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria
Int J Equity Health 8:45. 2009
..This study explored the socioeconomic and geographic differences in incidence and burden of malaria as well as ownership of mosquito nets...
- Improving quality of malaria treatment services: assessing inequities in consumers' perceptions and providers' behaviour in Nigeria
Obinna Onwujekwe
Department of Health Administration and Management, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria
Int J Equity Health 9:22. 2010
..Hence, the study determined the technical and perceived quality of malaria treatment services of different types of providers in three urban and three rural areas in southeast Nigeria...
- Preferences for benefit packages for community-based health insurance: an exploratory study in Nigeria
Obinna Onwujekwe
Health Policy Research Group, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu
BMC Health Serv Res 10:162. 2010
..Hence, this paper provides an understanding of the preferred benefit packages by different economic status groups as well as urban and rural dwellers for CBHI in Southeast Nigeria...
- Examining appropriate diagnosis and treatment of malaria: availability and use of rapid diagnostic tests and artemisinin-based combination therapy in public and private health facilities in south east Nigeria
Benjamin S C Uzochukwu
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Nigeria
BMC Public Health 10:486. 2010
..Hence, this study investigated the levels of availability and use of RDTs and ACTs in these facilities...
- Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) for HIV/AIDS: a study of the knowledge, awareness and willingness to pay for VCT among students in tertiary institutions in Enugu State Nigeria
Benjamin Uzochukwu
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, P O Box 3295, Enugu, Nigeria
Health Policy 99:277-84. 2011
..To examine the level of awareness of youths to voluntary counseling and testing and willingness to pay for this service, and to explore reasons for underutilization of this service...
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of rapid diagnostic test, microscopy and syndromic approach in the diagnosis of malaria in Nigeria: implications for scaling-up deployment of ACT
Benjamin S C Uzochukwu
Department of Community Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nigeria
Malar J 8:265. 2009
..The study hence compares the cost-effectiveness of RDT versus syndromic diagnosis and microscopy...
- Improving rational treatment of malaria: perceptions and influence of RDTs on prescribing behaviour of health workers in southeast Nigeria
Benjamin S C Uzochukwu
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria
PLoS ONE 6:e14627. 2011
..This study analysed health workers' perceptions of RDTs and their potential influence on their prescribing and treatment practices after their introduction...
- Determinants of non-adherence to subsidized anti-retroviral treatment in southeast Nigeria
B S C Uzochukwu
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria, P O Box 3295 Enugu, Nigeria
Health Policy Plan 24:189-96. 2009
..It is important that policy makers and programme managers address the factors responsible for non-adherence when scaling up subsidized ARV treatment in Nigeria and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa...
- Rural-urban differences in maternal responses to childhood fever in South East Nigeria
Benjamin S C Uzochukwu
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria
PLoS ONE 3:e1788. 2008
..This study was undertaken to compare maternal responses to childhood fever in urban and rural areas of Enugu, south east Nigeria...
- Households' perceptions and prioritization of tropical endemic diseases in Nigeria: implications for priority setting for resource allocation
Benjamin S C Uzochukwu
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria
World Health Popul 9:36-47. 2007
..Malaria is ranked highest as the most serious disease, followed by typhoid fever and HIV/AIDS. In addition, malaria and other endemic diseases are wrongly perceived as not being serious in some population groups...
- How do health workers and community members perceive and practice community participation in the Bamako Initiative programme in Nigeria? A case study of Oji River local government area
Benjamin S C Uzochukwu
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria Enugu, P O Box 3295, P M B 001129 Enugu, Nigeria
Soc Sci Med 59:157-62. 2004
..This improvement should take into consideration the desires and priorities of the communities and issues impeding participation should be addressed...
- Integrated management of childhood illness in Nigeria: does short-term training of health workers improve their performance?
B S C Uzochukwu
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria
Public Health 122:367-70. 2008
- Inequity in the Bamako Initiative programme--implications for the treatment of malaria in south-east Nigeria
Benjamin Uzochukwu
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria
Int J Health Plann Manage 19:S107-16. 2004
..BI appears to have increased malaria care utilization but has also raised some equity issues. It seems that richer households benefited more than poorer households...
- Exemption policies and community preferences for tropical endemic diseases in the Bamako initiative programme in Nigeria
Benjamin S C Uzochukwu
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine University of Nigeria, Enugu
Trop Doct 36:132-6. 2006
..One area of divergence between the preferences of the community and decision makers is the issue of exempting people with malaria and HIV/AIDS...
- Healthcare reform involving the introduction of user fees and drug revolving funds: influence on health workers' behavior in southeast Nigeria
Benjamin Uzochukwu
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, P O Box 3295, Enugu, Nigeria
Health Policy 75:1-8. 2005
..To assess the perceptions of health workers towards the drug revolving fund (DRF) scheme and the perceptions of the community members about health workers since the introduction of the DRF...
- Improving childhood malaria treatment and referral practices by training patent medicine vendors in rural south-east Nigeria
Theodora A Okeke
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, P, O, Box 3295, Nigeria
Malar J 8:260. 2009
..This study aimed to determine the feasibility and impact of training rural drug vendors on community-based malaria treatment and advice with referral of severe cases to a health facility...
- Effect of the Bamako-Initiative drug revolving fund on availability and rational use of essential drugs in primary health care facilities in south-east Nigeria
Benjamin S C Uzochukwu
Department of Community Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria
Health Policy Plan 17:378-83. 2002
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- An in-depth study of patent medicine sellers' perspectives on malaria in a rural Nigerian community
Theodora A Okeke
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria
Malar J 5:97. 2006
..This study aims to determine the medicine sellers' perspectives on malaria and the determinants that underlie their dispensing patterns of antimalarial drugs...
- Investigating determinants of out-of-pocket spending and strategies for coping with payments for healthcare in southeast Nigeria
Obinna E Onwujekwe
Department of Health Administration and Management, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria
BMC Health Serv Res 10:67. 2010
..This paper provides information that would be required to improve financial accessibility and equity in financing within the public health care system...
