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Access issues: Transportation Challenges and healthcare delivery in rural settings
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posted on 2020-03-26, 10:23 authored by Azuka Onyeme, Andrew Price, Francis Edum-FotweThe aim of the work in this paper is to present the results from a study of how the quality of life
in remote locations and rural settings of Bayelsa State, Nigeria can be enhanced through
improvement in healthcare accessibility. The methodology comprised desktop study,
questionnaire survey, participant observations and interviews. A survey comprising 2,000
distributed questionnaires was conducted between July 2016 and July 2017 within seven selected
states in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. A total of 1,800 questionnaires were completed and
returned. Informal interviews were conducted with respondents from the public and health sectors
within Bayelsa State; the focus state for the study. Data from most of the respondents revealed
that physical barriers such as nature of terrain and transportation significantly influenced health
services accessibility. Further analysis of the data revealed that lapses in the health policies and
lack of initiatives were paramount drivers to the challenges around accessibility. Based on these
findings a guide was developed to aid improvement on access to healthcare services. The guide
provides recommendations for development of better transportation mechanisms that will resolve
the long-standing logistics challenges that have impacted the healthcare needs of the rural
population. Government action or involvement is a key influence on the actual outcomes from
execution of the guide
Funding
Health Services Authority of Bayelsa State
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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International Journal of Development ResearchVolume
09Issue
10Pages
30265 - 30273Publisher
International Journal of Development ResearchVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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© The authorsPublisher statement
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by International Journal of Development Research under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Acceptance date
2019-09-06Publication date
2019-10-16Copyright date
2019ISSN
2230-9926Publisher version
Language
- en
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Prof Andrew Price Deposit date: 26 March 2020Usage metrics
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