Interrogating How Differential Motivation in PublicHealthcare Institutions is Undermining Nigeria’s Questfor the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goal(SDG) 3

Abstract

With Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3, it is expected that all at all ageswould have healthy lives and well-being by 2030. To achieve this feat, countries,including Nigeria, set up workable mechanisms for its attainment. However, thereality in Nigeria shows that public healthcare institutions suffer fromlimitations that undermine the attainment of SDG 3 (healthy lives andimproved well-being for all). One of such limiting factors is differentialmotivation, which seems to motivate clinicians well above non-clinicians. Whileits use is partly hinged on the fact that clinicians spend more years in trainingAfrican Journal of Development Studies (AJDS)Published consistently since 2012ISSN 2634-3630 E-ISSN 2634-3649Indexed by IBSS, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS, COPERNICUS, ProQuest,SABINET and J-Gate.Special Issue, October 2024pp 97-119Interrogating How Differential Motivation in ...98and the tasking nature of their work, it has caused more ravaging disputes that,in turn, have threatened the healthy lives and well-being of Nigerians. It alsothreatens Nigeria's ability to attain the SDG 3 by 2030, as healthcare workerswho are supposed to render effective coordinated healthcare delivery to thepublic are at war. Drawing on the secondary method sourced through desktopreviews and structural-functionalism, this article examined how the adoption ofdifferential motivation is limiting Nigeria's capacity to attain SDG 3. Thefindings expanded the discussion on undercurrents of differential motivation inpublic healthcare institutions in Nigeria. The study also suggested meansthrough which the Nigerian government and actors in public healthcareinstitutions can utilise differential motivation in ways that aid Nigeria'sattainment of SDG 3 and health for all