Health service delivery and political trust in Nigeria.

ABSTRACT: Do improvements in health service delivery affect trust in political leaders in Africa? Citizens expect their government to provide social services. Intuitively, improvements in service delivery should lead to higher levels of trust in and support for political leaders. However, in contexts where inadequate services are the norm, and where political support is linked to ethnic or religious affiliation, there may be weak linkages between improvements in service delivery and changes in trust in political leaders. To examine this question empirically, we take advantage of a national intervention that improved health service delivery in 500 primary health care facilities in Nigeria, to estimate the impact of residence within 10 km of one or more of the intervention facilities on trust in the p

SUBMITTER: Chukwuma A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6446063 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature