Patient Satisfaction with Care and Its Predictors in a Secondary Hospital in Kaduna State, North-western Nigeria.

Background: Satisfied patients adhere more to counselling, prescribed treatment and referrals. Few studies reveal the sub-scales of satisfaction and predictors of satisfaction in north-western Nigeria.

Objectives: To determine patients' overall satisfaction with healthcare provision and their predictors at a secondary hospital in Kaduna metropolis, Kaduna State, North-Western Nigeria.

Evidence from the Kaduna State Health Accounts on the pattern of sub-national health spending in Nigeria, 2016.

Health accounts provide accurate estimates of health expenditure, which are important for effective resource allocation and planning in the health sector. In Nigeria, four rounds of health accounts have been conducted at the national level. However, the national estimates do not necessarily reflect realities at the subnational level and may only provide limited information for decision making at that level.

Factors influencing willingness and ability to pay for social health insurance in Nigeria.

Background: Many low and middle-income countries are increasingly cognisant of the need to offer financial protection to its citizens through pre-payment schemes in order to curb high out of pocket expenditure and catastrophic spending on healthcare. However, there is limited rigorous contextual evidence to make decisions regarding optimal design of such schemes. This study assesses the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for the recently introduced state contributory health insurance scheme (SHIS) in Nigeria.