February 2019

Community based health insurance as a viable option for health financing: An assessment of household willingness to pay in Lagos, Nigeria

The high cost and effect of out of pocket payments for health care on households in developing countries have led to the use of community-based health insurance (CBHI) as a viable alternative for health care funding. The overall objective of the study was to assess the perception and determinants of willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a proposed community based health insurance scheme in urban and rural households in Lagos...

Author(s): Agbo Ijeoma, Onajole Adebayo, Ogunnowo Babatunde and Emechebe Angela  

February 2019

Superstitious knowledge of the phenomena of teeth eruption in rural area of Ferlo in Senegal

Teeth are physiological phenomenon that appears in child and who begins around 6 to 8 months after birth. The aim of this work was to study superstitious knowledge of the phenomena of teeth eruption in the mothers peulhs of Ferlo in Senegal. The research method was a descriptive and qualitative study; comprising questioning the mothers of children in the phase of active teeth eruption by structured, semi-structured...

Author(s): Diouf Massamba, Boetsch Gilles, Dieng Amadou and Cissé Daouda