The Private Health Sector in Nigeria – An Assessment of Its Workforce and Service Provision
Nigeria has made major progress on many essential health indicators linked to the Millennium Development Goals. According to the World Health Organization’s Nigeria office, limitations on the capacity of the public health system constrain improvements in the key health indicators. A possible solution is that the private sector be considered as a partner in scaling-up. The likelihood that the private health sector will be a successful partner depends on its ability to provide an increased scale of quality health services to rural, lower-income, and remote populations. This study is focused on two good measures of this ability. The first crucial measure is the private health sector workforce. The other is the ability of the private health sector to offer significant coverage of services compared to the public sector.
