National Health Policy and Maternal Health: The Vulnerable Population in Nigeria

Abstract

The real wealth of any nation is its people; therefore governments all over the world invest in the health care sector in order to have a healthy population which will enhance the accumulation of wealth for economic development. The Nigeria government put in place a health policy to cater for health of its citizen Maternal health healthcare was prioritized because of the important role females play in the reproduction of the population..There are however inadequate adolescent health care services despite their being part of the female reproductive group. This is evidence by their higher rate of mortality and their children. This study therefore identified those special reproductive health care services needed by adolescents. And suggested that policy makers and health care providers should put in place policies that are adolescents friendly in particular because adolescents have special material health need due to their physiology and experience which may not be ready for child bearing as at the time they stared.