Perceptions of healthcare finance and system quality among Nigerian healthcare workers

Background: Nigeria’s healthcare system faces significant challenges in financing and quality, impacting the delivery of services to its growing population. This study investigates healthcare workers’ perceptions of these challenges and their implications for healthcare policy and practice.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 600 healthcare professionals from eight states across Nigeria, representing a variety of healthcare occupations. Participants completed a questionnaire that assessed their perceptions of healthcare financing, quality of care, job satisfaction, and motivation using a 5-point Likert scale, closed- and open-ended questions. Descriptive statistics, Chi-squared test, and regression analysis were used to analyze the data.
Results: The findings revealed that healthcare workers were generally not satisfied with the current state of healthcare financing and system quality in Nigeria. Poor funding, inadequate infrastructure, insufficient staffing, and limite..., Research Design
This study employed a quantitative cross-sectional survey design to assess healthcare workers’ perceptions of quality, challenges, and best financing interventions within the Nigerian healthcare system over the preceding period.
Population and Scope
The research focuses on healthcare workers in Nigeria, a West African nation (Figure 1) with a population exceeding 220 million as of 2024 (Worldometer, 2024).
The nine States selected for the study have a combined population of 72,025,500.  Nigeria has an overall estimated healthcare worker density of 19.97 per 10,000 individuals (WHO, 2023). Therefore, the target population for the study was 143,835 healthcare workers in addition to some non-clinical healthcare workers who are working in Nigerian government health facilities currently or within the last year  (WHO, 2023).
Healthcare workers were sampled from two randomly selected representative States in each of five geopolitical zones (except one for the South-east, the sm..., , # Perceptions of Healthcare Finance and System Quality Among Nigerian Healthcare Workers

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.b8gtht7mn](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.b8gtht7mn)

## Description of the data and file structure

* This is the healthcare workers' part of our nationwide research.
* You can open the file using Microsoft Excel, Google Spreadsheet, or any other spreadsheet processor.
* Data Set 1 is the survey responses:
* This Excel spreadsheet contains the data from a survey that spanned nine states from five geopolitical zones in Nigeria from June to August 2023.
* It contains participants' responses about their social demographics, perceptions towards the healthcare systems, and their opinions regarding the quality of the healthcare system. 

### Files and variables

#### File: Data\_1.xlsx

**Description:**

This is the healthcare workers' part of our nationwide cross-sectional survey on healthcare quality.

##### Variables:

Variables include the following

* State
* Years...