Does economic shocks influence household's healthcare expenditure? Evidence from rural Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorRufai, Adedoyin Mistura
dc.contributor.authorOgunniyi, Adebayo Isaiah
dc.contributor.authorAbioye, Oyewale Daniel
dc.contributor.authorBirindwa, Ahadi Bwihangane
dc.contributor.authorOlagunju, Kehinde Oluseyi
dc.contributor.authorOmotayo, Abiodun Olusola
dc.contributor.departmentEconomics
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-14T13:07:00Z
dc.date.available2024-03-14T13:07:00Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-03
dc.descriptionPublication history: Accepted - 21 April 2021; Published - 3 May 2021.
dc.description.abstractHealth is profoundly influenced by several factors outside the traditional realm of healthcare. This paper employed a two-step Heckman selectivity model to examine factors influencing the decision to spend on health and the effects of economic shocks on health expenditure. The results from the first stage shows that the likelihood of spending on health increased with age, education, income, and decreases if the household is living in the northern region of Nigeria and uses mosquito bed-net. The findings from the second stage estimation show that a fall in the price of food items, an increase in the price of inputs for household enterprises and loss of job are the significant shocks that affect household health expenditure. Based on these findings, this study concluded that fall in the prices of major food items consumed within the household increased income available for health care among the farmers. Going forward, the study recommends the provision of holistic health-economic-welfare interventions for the marginalized rural populace in Nigeria.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/673
dc.identifier.citationRufai, A.M., Ogunniyi, A.I., Abioye, O.D., Birindwa, A.B., Olagunju, K.O. and Omotayo, A.O. (2021) ‘Does economic shocks influence household’s healthcare expenditure? Evidence from rural Nigeria’, Heliyon. Elsevier BV. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06897.
dc.identifier.issn2405-8440 (electronic)
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06897
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rights© 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
dc.subjectEconomic trauma
dc.subjectHealth expenditure
dc.subjectRural development
dc.subjectNigeria
dc.titleDoes economic shocks influence household's healthcare expenditure? Evidence from rural Nigeria
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-04-21
dcterms.dateSubmitted2020-08-10

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