TY  - EJOU
AU  - 
T1  - Public Health Expenditure, Economic Growth and Health Outcomes in Nigeria
T2  - International Journal of Public Policy and Administration Research

PY  - 2019
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SN  - 2312-6515

AB  - It is argued that while increase in budgetary allocation to social services is highly desirable, it is not sufficient to guarantee enhancement in better health outcome. This paper links public health expenditure, economic growth and health outcomes and the causality among them using Nigeria data. The finding suggests increase in public health expenditure has decreased infant mortality rate while infant mortality rate is negatively correlated with economic growth. Interestingly, the direction of causality among public health expenditure, infant mortality rate and growth is unidirectional, from public health expenditure to growth. 
KW  - Public health expenditure
KW  - Health outcomes
KW  - Economic growth
KW  - Infant mortality rate
KW  - Life expectancy
KW  - Real growth GDP
KW  - Causality
DO  - 10.18488/journal.74.2019.61.23.32