INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT International Peer Reviewed & Refereed Journals, Open Access Journal ISSN Approved Journal No: 2456-4184 | Impact factor: 8.76 | ESTD Year: 2016
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Health is a critical factor which determines the quality of human capital that drives every economy. There is need therefore for the government to prioritize health expenditure. On the basis of this, the study examines the government health expenditure on the health outcomes in Nigeria. The study used data from 1981 to 2020, employing Autoregressive Distributed Lag as well as the Error Correction Model (ECM) techniques. The ARDL Bounds Test results confirmed that there is a long-run equilibrium relationship among the variables. The results of the Error Correction Mechanism (ECM) accentuated the connection between government healthcare expenditure and health outcomes in Nigeria through establishment of stable long-term equilibrium relationship among the variables employed in the model. The study therefore conclude that government should increase the amount of its expenditure on the health sector as discovered in the result that it enhances improvement in the life expectancy rate. Also government should improve the welfare of health care personnel. This will help to improve the health outcomes indices of under 5 mortality rate and life expectancy level.
Keywords:
Under 5 mortality rate, Life expectancy, health outcomes, health expenditure, ARDL, ECM.
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"GOVERNMENT HEALTH EXPENDITURE AND HEALTH OUTCOMES IN NIGERIA", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.8, Issue 1, page no.b211-b221, January-2023, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2301125.pdf
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