Economic Crisis and Health Care Delivery System: a Study of Private Health Care Delivery in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
This paper examines the current economic crisis in Nigeria and its impact on private medical business using Port Harcourt City as a case study. It took a brief look at the Nigerian economic crisis as well as the relationship between the economic crisis and health care delivery system. A brief survey of the economic activities of the study area is made so as to adequately situate the study and facilitate the understanding of the social, economic and political conditions that have given so much prominence to private practices in Port Harcourt. It also attempts to trace the origin of private health care delivery system in Nigeria in general and Port Harcourt in particular as well as discuss the impact it had made. Finally, it gave some suggestions on how to improve the health care delivery system.