An Empirical Analysis Of Federal Government Health Budgetary Allocation On Economic Growth In Nigeria:- Loveth Oluebube O

ABSTRACT

 This study attempt was to ascertain the impact offederal government health expenditure on gross domestic product, infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate in Nigeria using time series data obtainedfrom the World Development Indicator ofthe World Bank and the Central Bank ofNigeria Statistical Bulletin for the period 1981 to 2018. Owing to the objective of the study, three models were developed and analyzed using the ordinary least squares method. It reveals that federal government expenditure has a positive and significant relationship with gross domestic product in Nigeria.lt was also discovered that federal government health expenditure has a negative and significant relationship with infant mortality rate in Nigeria as increases in federal government health spending results in a reduction in infant mortality rate in Nigeria. It recommends Federal government should increase and restructure the public health allocation to the health sector in order to provide more health facilities, drugs, laboratories, equipment, among others, it also government should introduce programmes that will cause awareness concerning the effect of carbon dioxide emissions on individual’s health and should advice people and industries on how to deal with it. Government investment on health should be sustained rather than been left at the mercy ofmarket due to its roles in human capital development necessaryfor development. An empirical analysis of Federal Government Health Budgetary Allocation on Economic Growth in Nigeria using the Gross Domestic Product, Infant Mortality Rate, Federal Government Health Expenditure, Maternal Mortality Rate.