Abstract
Good health is essential to achieve sustainable development in any economy.
Nigeria is no exception. No wonder it is the third goal in the sustainable
development goals of the United Nations. Achieving good health also needsto be well funded with institutional quality, hence this study. This paper
examined the effect of health financing and governance quality on health
outcomes in Nigeria from 1980 to 2018 using secondary data sourced from
World Development Indicators (WDI). A co-integration test and a vector error
correction model (VECM) were employed to analyse the data. Short- and
long-term results of an analysis based on life expectancy and infant mortality
as a measure of health outcomes and dependent variables demonstrate that
institutions empowered with good governance could produce positive health
outcomes in the country.