GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE FINANCING AND WORKFORCE PRODUCTIVITY: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorKALIYAD, BOMAN COMFORT
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-08T08:20:34Z
dc.date.available2016-03-08T08:20:34Z
dc.date.issued2014-12
dc.descriptionA Thesis submitted to the Department of Economics, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Award of Masters Degree in Economics. Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe study examined empirically Government Health care financing and Workforce Productivity. The variables examined were workforce growth rate as a proxy for workforce productivity, government capital, recurrent and total expenditure, GDP and the total government expenditure as a percentage of GDP. A Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model was estimated using the Nigerian annual time series data from 1980 to 2010. Results from the VAR estimate and Granger causality revealed that; government capital expenditure on health care in Nigeria had a negative effect on workforce productivity over the period of study. Government recurrent expenditure on health care in Nigeria impacted positively on workforce productivity over the period of study although the impact was weak; government capital expenditure and government recurrent expenditure on healthcare caused workforce productivity over the period of study, meaning that changes in these form of expenditures could also account for changes in workforce productivity. The study shows that government health care financing has made a little or no positive impact on workforce productivity in Nigeria over the period ofstudy, although a positive change in financing could lead to a positive change in workforce productivity. Therefore, government should expedite action towards providing qualitative health infrastructures; boosting recurrent expenditure to maintain them and increase spending to finance the national health insurance scheme. This will provideconducive working environment for the workers to improve in their productivity; and ensure that productive time on thinking of how to pay for out of pocket health care is channeled towards productivity.It is also recommended that better attention should be given to health personnel‘s remuneration in order to motivate them to give their best in production which will have a positive multiplier effect on the economy.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7433
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectGOVERNMENT,en_US
dc.subjectHEALTH CARE,en_US
dc.subjectFINANCING,en_US
dc.subjectWORKFORCE PRODUCTIVITY,en_US
dc.subjectEMPIRICAL EVIDENCE,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIA.en_US
dc.titleGOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE FINANCING AND WORKFORCE PRODUCTIVITY: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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