Access to free health care services among elderly people in public hospitals: the case of Mwananyamala hospital in Dar es salaam, Tanzania.
| dc.contributor.author | Kawawa, Jacquiline G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-01T08:00:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-02-01T08:00:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description | A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for master of social work of Hubert Kairuki Memorial University. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The study sought to assess the access to free health care services among elderly people in public hospitals. The objectives of the study included; i) To examine the ability of elderly people living in Dar es salaam on access to free health care services in public hospitals, ii) To examine challenges limiting elderly people from accessing free health care services in public hospitals iii) To assess measures taken to make free health care services accessible to elderly people living in Dar es Salaam seeking free health care services in public hospitals. The study employed qualitative study design of 20 participant’s .Purposive and Snowball sampling was adopted to select elderly people attending at Mwananyamala hospital. The study revealed that elderly people have no full ability to access free health care services in public hospitals. Moreover, study findings indicated that most of elderly people paid for medical charges in public hospitals when they become sick due to lack of information of their entitled free health care services and poor health facilities in public hospital. Again, the research showed that, there are different challenges facing elderly people in accessing free health care which are; Lack of trained health personnel to deal with elderly people, long waiting, Shortage of medication for elderly people, Distance and transport cost, elderly discrimination, Inability to pay for medical cost when asked to pay for some health charges. Hence, the study suggested measures to be taken in order improve elderly people health situation, which includes reviewing elderly peoples’ policy and good implementation of health policies, introduction of comprehensive health insurance and economic opportunities such as elderly pension. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kawawa, Jacquiline. G. 2017. Access to free health care services among elderly people in public hospitals: the case of Mwananyamala hospital in Dar es salaam, Tanzania.HKMU | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1299 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Hubert Kairuki Memorial University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Free health care services | en_US |
| dc.subject | Elderly people | en_US |
| dc.subject | Public hospitals | en_US |
| dc.title | Access to free health care services among elderly people in public hospitals: the case of Mwananyamala hospital in Dar es salaam, Tanzania. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |