Conference Poster: The Need for Social Justice Professionals in Addressing Vital Concerns in Primary Health Centres that Inhibit Utilisation by Slum Dwellers
In Nigerian urban slums, primary health care centres do not have high patronage, and residents utilise the services of informal health providers like traditional healers, birth attendants, and patent medicine vendors. There are emerging insights that this happens for many reasons, including that primary healthcare practices are inconsistent with the rights and expectations of the urban slum residents. It is suggested that with the integration of social justice professionals such as social workers into the primary healthcare system, these concerns and inconsistencies can be managed.
Dr. Prince Agwu, at the Health Policy Research Group, University of Nigeria, shared this perspective at the 13th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health.