Confirmation of Candidature - The Impact of World Pandemics on Health Services Management: The Covid-19 Experience in Nigeria and Australia

Background
This research aims to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health services management using the COVID-19 experiences as the major means of measure. Secondary data would be used to compare the Low and Medium-Income Countries (LMIC) and the High-Income Countries (HIC), focusing on health systems in Nigeria as a LMIC and Australia as a HIC. The research will also develop and operationalize the concept of health care workers' experiences during pandemics, and investigate how the Covid-19 pandemic affected the health workplace, including its long- and short-term impact on HCWs health and wellbeing. This is with a view to exploring the key issues to this phenomenon and developing a theoretical framework for development of future service management intervention policies and strategies in the increasingly volatile health-care climate and workplace.

Method
This is designed to be a comparative observation study and employing secondary data. Mixed methods statistical design would be used. Secondary data of observational reports would be obtained from World Health Organization (WHO), our world in data, and WHO observatory as well as Australia Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

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