IMPACT OF HEALTH ON HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS EFFECT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA 1980-2020

This study empirically examined the impact of health on human capital development and it’s effect on economic growth in Nigeria for the sample period of 1980-2020. The Augmented Dickey Fuller unit root test was employed to test for the order of integration of the series, further the autoregressive distributed tag model was employed to estimate the long run relationship between the variables. Results showed that contrary to a priori expectation, human capital index and life expectancy had negative relationship with economic growth. The study therefore recommends that proper and effectively managed health policies should be put in place so that human capital would be healthy enough to assimilate skills and know how and this would translate to more economic growth for Nigeria.