Citation
Chibueze, Onyechege Declan
(2021)
Determinants and impacts of communicable diseases on health outcome and economic growth in Nigeria.
Doctoral thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Abstract
The Nigerian government has implemented various measures to curtail the high
prevalence of communicable diseases. The healthcare industry in Nigeria is working
tirelessly to address this concern, but all the undertaken efforts seem fruitless. The
fruitless efforts has motivated the researcher to investigate the socioeconomic
determinants of communicable diseases in Nigeria. Hence, the first objective of this
thesis is to explore the socioeconomic factors (income, education, savings, and final
consumption expenditure) related to communicable diseases in Nigeria. The second
objective of this thesis is to identify the impacts of communicable diseases on the health
outcome in Nigeria. The poor economic outcome in Nigeria is a result of low health
outcomes contributed by the high prevalence of communicable diseases in Nigeria. Thus,
the third objective of this thesis is to investigate the impacts of communicable diseases
on economic growth conditioned on health outcomes.
This study was analysed using the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model for
all the study's objectives. The data collected for this study were secondary and obtained
from reliable and other reputable agencies. The period of data estimation was 34 years,
ranging from 1985 to 2018. Based on the study's findings, the socioeconomic
determinants used in the first objective, proved significant in the HIV/AIDS model.
Income proved a significant negative relationship at 1% with HIV/AIDS, while savings,
education, and final consumption expenditure had a significant positive relationship with
HIV/AIDS at 1%, 10%, and 1%, respectively. For the Tuberculosis model, all the
socioeconomic determinants had a positive relationship with Tuberculosis. Nevertheless,
only savings and final consumption expenditure were significant at 5% and 10%,
respectively. For the second objective, the result proved that HIV/AIDS, had a negative
relationship with life expectancy at a 10% significant level. Contrarily, Tuberculosis had
an insignificant negative relationship with life expectancy. For the under-5 mortality rate
(UMR) model, HIV/AIDS proved to have an insignificant negative relationship with UMR, while Tuberculosis proved to have a positive relationship with UMR, which was
significant at a 1% level.
The third objective study's findings proved an insignificant positive relationship between
health outcomes and economic growth. In addition, communicable diseases had
significant impacts on economic growth at a 1% significant level in consideration of the
interactive variables at minimum, maximum, and mean values of the conditioned
variables. In conclusion, the low-income level of Nigerians has been alarming in recent
years. An increase in income reduces the prevalence of communicable diseases. The
Nigerian government should put more effort into equity in income, a balanced flow of
income should be favourable to all citizens. And this can be achieved by increasing
workers' minimum wages. Secondly, the Nigerian government should strive to
implement free medical care access for its citizens, by providing good medical care
services mainly to the people at the grassroots, where communicable diseases are
increasing. The dependence on foreign financial assistance can be reduced if Nigeria can
improve the local sectors by giving support to the production capacity of these local
sectors hence creating employment opportunities for Nigerians.
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Item Type: |
Thesis
(Doctoral)
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Subject: |
Communicable disease - Nigeria |
Subject: |
Medical economics - Nigeria |
Subject: |
Economic development - Health aspects |
Call Number: |
SPE 2022 34 |
Chairman Supervisor: |
Associate Professor Norashidah binti Mohamed Nor, PhD |
Divisions: |
School of Business and Economics |
Depositing User: |
Emelda Mohd Hamid
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Date Deposited: |
08 Feb 2024 07:08 |
Last Modified: |
08 Feb 2024 07:08 |
URI: |
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/99752 |
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