Africa's quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be … the policy effectiveness that bring about improved health and living standards of the citizenry. In this paper, we study … the importance of leader characteristics and regime transitions on government's expenditure in health, and hence on infant …

Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well …, economics, and related fields (e.g., statistics, engineering, and health policy) to discuss approaches to modeling economy …

consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of …

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

Bentham, championed reforms that form part of the Public Health Act of 1848, which led to the primacy of sanitation efforts … (such as pressurised water supply, sewage management, and garbage collection and safe disposal) in public health policy in … the UK and elsewhere. Maclean convinced the Sanitarians that quarantines were not grounded in health science but instead …

examine a setting with large potential externality benefits: vaccination mandates for health care workers. I find that the … health care worker vaccination are particularly large. …

that all of the sanitation and health benefits accrue from villages where resource agencies implemented the program, while …

the virus, socio-demographic characteristics and pre-pandemic health characteristics. In each country, the samples are …