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Factors influencing healthcare-seeking behaviour of South African adolescents
(Springer, 2021-05-15) Omotoso, Kehinde Oluwaseun; Adesina, Jimi; Adewole, Ololade Grace; Gbadegesin, Taiwo Frances
Aims Access to healthcare, especially among adolescents, is a public health issue with long-lasting health and socio-economic consequences. Adolescence is a distinctive growing period for developing healthcare behaviour that can either improve or worsen future health conditions. Hence, the need for quality healthcare behaviour among adolescents who usually constitute a large proportion of any country’s population, is imperative. This paper thus examines the impact of medical aid coverage and other socio-economic factors in determining South African adolescents’ utilisation of either private or public healthcare facilities in the event of illness. By extension, the study investigates the effects of pertinent parental characteristics on South African adolescents’ choices of either private or public healthcare facilities. Subject and methods Data come from the population-weighted 2018 General Household Survey (GHS). Units of analysis include adolescents within the ages of 10 and 19 years. The empirical analysis relies primarily on a regressions-based model and instrumental variable approach. Results Result indicates that younger adolescents are more likely to use public healthcare facilities in the event of illness than older adolescents. However, adolescents who are medically covered are less likely to utilise public healthcare facilities in the event of illness. Further findings suggest that the likelihood of using public healthcare facilities is higher among adolescents who are black Africans, live in relatively poor households, large households and rural areas. Conclusion Further implementation and review of any national health policy such as the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme needs to address and take into consideration adolescents’ healthcare utlisation and socio-economic variations in their healthcare utilisation.
Learn or Perish
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2024-03-30) Omotoso, Kehinde Oluwaseun; Adewole , Ololade Grace; Gbadegesin, Taiwo Frances
Like most countries, Nigeria implemented a lock-down policy restricting all movements except for essential services and functions in order to contain the COVID-19 virus. COVID-19 pandemic is one of such crises that seem to have brought unprecedented emergencies in the education sector. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s education sector has been considered fragile and fraught with inequality in access to schooling and learning experiences. Access to digital tools and equipment, particularly portable ones like smartphones, tablets or laptops, and the Internet, which served as an alternative learning platform during the lockdown, were relatively low before the pandemic.