Household health-seeking behaviour and response to Informal payment: does economic status matter?
Informal payments in public facilities negatively affect health seeking, driving the poorest households to use low-quality care services. This problem needs to be widely recognised and sufficiently tackled in order for the country to reduce the economic burden of health seeking and achieve equitable access and utilisation of high-quality health services.
Authors
- Dina Balabanova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7163-3428)
- Martin McKee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0121-9683)
- Blake J. Angell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7188-7740)
- Chukwudi C. Nwokolo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3434-0866)
- Obinna Emmanuel Onwujekwe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1214-4285)
- Iheomimichineke Ojiakor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6809-2407)
Institutions
- University of Nigeria (NG)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- The George Institute for Global Health (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Health Economics Review
- Published
- 2025-10-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-025-00654-3
- Primary Topic
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Medical Research Council
- Economic and Social Research Council
- National Health and Medical Research Council