Health Performance and COVID19: Lessons for Nigeria

Abstract

This study examines the effect of the health sector performance globally on the management of COVID-19. This study was carried out in order to seek a way of curbing the negative spread and death causality from the Corona virus 2019 (COVID-19). The research design used for this study is the expost-facto research design and secondary data was used which was gotten from 85 countries. The variables examined on which data were gotten comprises of COVID-19 rate of infection and death rate as dependent variables and the health sector independent rating as the independent variable. The analysis was carried out with the simple regression model and ANOVA significance test of 5%.The result reveals that health performance has a low inverse impact on COVID-19 infection rate. It also reveals that health performance has a low positive impact on COVID-19 death rate. In conclusion, health performance does not have a significant effect on COVID-19 infection rate. It was recommended that in addition to the reliance on the health sector, other measures such as nonpharmaceutical processes be explored to curb COVID-19 spread and death casualty and that more funds should be apportioned to the health sector in Nigeria to improve the rating of the health sector in the country.