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Informal payments for healthcare: Differences in expenditures from consumers and providers perspectives for treatment of malaria in Nigeria

Author(s): 
Obinna Onwujekwe, Nkem Dike, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Ogochukwu Ezeoke
Reference: 
Health Policy, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2010, Pages 72-79
Contact email: 
onwujekwe@yahoo.co.uk

The differences in malaria treatment expenditures from consumers’ and providers’ perspectives point to high levels of informal payments, which worsen the economic burden of the disease and may predispose to catastrophic health spending.

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