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 …

for individuals to seek care in faith-inspired health facilities is the fact that the cost of care is lower than in public …

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. …

This article assesses the importance of risk in the measurement of rural poverty in Burkina Faso. The analysis is based … how the integration of risk into the measurement of poverty tends to increase these measures significantly. …

use data from the Burkina Faso's Demographic and Health Surveys 2003, which supplies information on the prevalence of …

Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing … health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To … modes. Overall, it can be concluded that the health care reforms have not reduced equity in health care financing neither if …