A boy looks out over city rooftops in Nigeria
A boy looks out over city rooftops in Nigeria - A landmark UCL-led report studying health inequality in Nigeria has called for urgent action by policy makers to prevent diseases before they occur and to urgently increase access to health care for all. The Lancet Nigeria Commission report, published on Wednesday 16 March, found that health outcomes remain poor in Nigeria despite higher expenditure since 2001. A multidisciplinary group of Nigeria experts and academics based around the world, working in close collaboration with UCL's Institute for Global Health and policy makers, over a two-year period reviewed existing disease burden, and opportunities to improve health. The team found that while Nigeria is Africa's largest economy and most populous country - projected to become the world's third most populated country by 2050 - its dismal health outcomes are holding back progress and threatening the future of an otherwise dynamic nation. In an accompanying Lancet paper, the group also examined population health outcomes in Nigeria between 1998-2019, compared to 15 other west African countries. They analysed by gender patterns of mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, and health system coverage. The authors concluded that Nigeria compares less favourably than similar nations in West Africa, despite recent improvements.
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