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In Nigeria, malaria incidence has been observed to impose sizable economic burden on
households and national health outcomes at large. Evidence suggests this illness affects
production by reducing household’s labour supply and the household’s ability to effectively
utilize resources. Successive Nigerian governments have been making efforts at ensuring that
there is an improvement in the level of health outcome through health expenditure on malaria
incidence, in addition to increased health spending nationally to meet a subset of the
millennium development goals six which is malaria reduction. Yet, health outcomes reports in
Nigeria are still worrisome. Thus, this study investigated the progressive implication of Malaria
incidence and malaria spending on Nigeria health outcomes using the production function
health model with macroeconomic variables from 1970 to 2013. The study observed that health
expenditure and educational expenditure are the major means government spends on malaria
incidence in terms of providing essential infrastructural services. This paper argues that
implementing necessary health policies will enhance national productivity. This is because
healthier people work more and are physically and cognitively stronger.
