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health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … implementation of national health policies, or more favorable geography. The paper uses micro level data for children under five to …’Ivoire, and Togo. A Cox proportional hazards model is used to test which of the three ‘contenders’ – health policy, wealth, or …
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Abstract Purpose – How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change … openness and financial liberalization play-out in the fight against health-worker crisis when existing emigration levels matter …? Despite the acute concern of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has made the subject …
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Health Survey food consumption data for over 93,000 children from 21 African countries and Global Land Cover Facility tree …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of trade and financial globalization on human development in 52 African countries using updated data(1996-2010) and a new indicator of human development(adjusted for inequality). Design/methodology/approach – The estimation...
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This article re-examines the relationship alcohol and VIH/Aids, while resorting to another methodological approach that utilized by Fisher et al., (2007) and Kalichman et al. (2007). We confirm a direct relation of alcohol to the AIDS.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110230
Although microfinance has played a significant role in providing a wide range of financial products and services, many microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Kenya still face major challenges with efficiently and effectively delivering microfinance services in the country. As the demand for these...
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Faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) commonly have as their stated mission a desire to provide quality health services to … services more affordable. However, it suggests that in current African health contexts, FIIs may no longer be that different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260037
The issue of whether faith-inspired providers are able to reach the poor depends in part on the cost of the health … assess to what extent the cost of healthcare is a major reason for not being satisfied with health services and whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108153
This paper has two objectives. The first is to provide a review of the discourses about the religious response to HIV/AIDS in Africa that have emerged from the recent literature, how these discourses has changed over time (from religiophobia to a cautious recognition of the comparative value of...
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lead households to rely on traditional as opposed to modern health providers, and within modern providers, on faith … traditional healers for specific health issues that they encounter. As to the choice between modern providers, faith …, especially for those who for feel marginalized in the public health system. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113987