Public Health Expenditure and Under-five Mortality in Nigeria: An Overview for Policy Intervention

Azuh, Dominic E. and Osabohien, Romanus and Orbih, M. U. (2020) Public Health Expenditure and Under-five Mortality in Nigeria: An Overview for Policy Intervention. Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences. pp. 353-362. ISSN eISSN: 1857-9655

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Abstract

Nigeria. METHODS: The autoregressive distribution lag technique was employed in this study in examining the long-run effect of public health expenditure on under-five mortality in Nigeria. Data were sourced from the World Development Indicators for the period 1985–2017. RESULTS: Results from the study showed that though public health expenditure is statistically significant, it showed a positive relationship with the under-five mortality. CONCLUSION: The implication of this result is that 1 unit increase in public health expenditure would improve increase under-five mortality rate by 1.56 units. However, in the Nigerian context, this can be better explained by the lack of proper health-fund coordination and other factors such as maternal education. Therefore, the study concluded by recommending that proper health-fund coordination should be put in place to ensure that budget allocated to the health sector is being spent properly

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Divisions:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Mrs Patricia Nwokealisi
Date Deposited:	28 Jun 2022 13:37
Last Modified:	28 Jun 2022 13:37
URI:	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/16037

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