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    An Assessment of Human Poverty - Health Outcomes Nexus in Rural Communities of Nasarawa State, Nigeria
    (Department of Economics, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2018-06-11) Itari, Abdul-Razaq Rilwan; Salihu, Habibu Muhammed-Gani; Yusuf, Muhammad Muazu
    The study was set to explore the hitman poverty and health outcome nexus in rural communities of Nasarawa State, Nigeria. The study relied solely on primary data collected from 399 randomly selected rural community members in three rural communities from three sample local government areas spread across the senatorial zones of the Nasarawa state. An econometric model was specified and estimated using the Bivariate Correlation and the Logit Regression techniques. Majority of the rural community dwellers i.e.76% are poor. The Logit regression results reveal that state of health, the number of dependents , Education, Number of limes food is taken per day, poor utilization of health care facilities (and death of children below the age of five are the major determinants of poverty and health relationships, although the model has a good fit given the value of McFadden's Pseudo - R2 coefficient 0.72, however, overall, the model is highly statistically significant according to the LR of 28.9 which is rejected at 1% level of significance. The model is very suitable as it passed the econometric tests conducted. The study, therefore, recommends that poverty rate and health conditions among the rural communities in Nasarawa State are greatly underpinned by the deplorable state of infrastructures such as the roads linking the communities to the major towns as well as to the healthcare facilities. The government should extend and intensify community infrastructure projects to the rural communities.