Publications by authors named "Marcus M Ilesanmi"
Objective: Monitoring trends in key population health indicators is important for informing health policies. The aim of this study was to examine population health trends in Canada over the past 30 years in relation to other countries.
Methods: We used data on disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), years of life lost (YLL), years lived with disability, life expectancy (LE), and child mortality for Canada and other countries between 1990 and 2019 provided by the Global Burden of Disease Study.
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- The study investigates the barriers and enablers of measles immunisation coverage from the perspective of healthcare providers in Saskatchewan, Canada, highlighting social and cultural challenges.
- It found a significant increase in measles immunisation coverage from 56.32% to 73.21% between 2002 and 2013, but revealed persistent inequalities, with affluent groups showing higher coverage rates than those from deprived backgrounds.
- Barriers identified include caregiver hesitancy and access issues, while solutions proposed involve enhancing community engagement, flexible service delivery, targeted social responses, and a greater role for media in promoting immunisation.
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- This study evaluated the readiness of maternal and child health (MCH) services in primary health care (PHC) facilities in Ekiti State, Nigeria, focusing on differences between urban and rural locations.
- Conducted from August to October 2020, the research utilized the Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) tool, revealing an average MCH readiness score of 47%, with urban facilities generally better equipped than rural ones.
- The findings indicate a low overall MCH service readiness in Ekiti State, prompting recommendations for strategies to improve access and quality of health care as part of the effort to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
Measles remains an important cause of childhood mortality in many resource-limited countries. With Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), there has been increasing emphasis on measles vaccination as a key strategy to remarkably improve child survival. While progress has been made towards measles vaccination coverage due to SDG in some settings, there has been no prior study evaluating its impact in Nigeria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Although Canada operates a universal health care insurance system, equitable access to required health care services when needed still poses a challenge for some. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between patient attachment to a family physician and self-perceived unmet health care needs (UHN) in Canada, after adjusting for predisposing, enabling, and need factors of the behavioral model of health services use.
Methods: This cross-sectional study used data from the Canadian Community Health Surveys, cycle 2013 to 2014.