Accessibility of Congolese households to quality healthcare

ISBN-13: 9786208707576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 52 str.

Cédric YUNGWE KITENGE; Linda AL HAMOUCHE

Opis

Accessibility to quality healthcare remains a key concern for developing countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. The aim of this study is to analyze the determinants of Congolese households' accessibility to quality healthcare. Specifically, our objectives are to identify the different health services and care to which households have easy and difficult recourse in the event of illness, to detect the key factor in households' renunciation of quality health care, to describe the consequences of inaccessibility to quality care and the means of remedying it, and to assess families' capacity for accessibility to a health insurance system. To this end, we undertook a quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive literature review. We used elements of the household survey of the Kinshasa population carried out from October to November 2015 by the Institut National de Statistiques in collaboration with the BIT/STEP program, which had previously trained and deployed interviewers in all the communes of the city-province of Kinshasa.