Al-Hikmah University Journal

The research is undertaken to investigate the impact of health infrastructure on child health in Nigeria. Poor health facilities in Nigeria's health sector have brought advanced consequences on the health status of the country. Nigeria is regarded as a country with higher child mortality, high disease prevalent rate, high morbidity and low life expectancy rate. In the modern time where countries of the world prioritize health, this study is necessitated to establish the impact of health infrastructure on the healthy child in Nigeria. The study made use of time series data on variables such as child mortality, health infrastructure, availability of health professionals and child immunization covering the period of 1988-2021. The variables were found to be stationary and multiple regression model analyse was the adapted methodology for the research. The regression results showed that there existed an inverse and significant impact between health infrastructure, availability of health professionals and child immunization on under-5 child mortality in Nigeria throughout the study. Therefore, government and health agencies are advised to be sensitive to the behaviour of the aforementioned variables to ensure effective measures capable of stimulating a reduction in child mortality in the country. In this regard, the development of health sector infrastructural needs should be vigorously pursued by the government to maintain a steady and smooth flow of well-being care service delivery in the country.