It is examined whether differential progress towards health MDGs was associated with economic development, public … health funding (both overall and as percentage of available domestic funds), or health system infrastructure. Also, the … address child mortality and increase risks of infectious diseases is also studied. …

questions on respondents’ perceptions of changing mortality. Child-mortality levels were perceived to have fallen drastically … in recent times, but for the middle-aged and the elderly, the past was seen as a better time in terms of health and … survival. The decline in adult health is attributed to environmental deterioration and lifestyle changes associated with …

, hunger, gender equality, education, child mortality, health, and water. Overall, we find evidence of dramatic achievements by … countries’ performance suggests that they may achieve most of the highly ambitious MDGs. Moreover, sub-Saharan Africa accounts …

public spending on health. An interim secretariat should be there to incubate a global health technology assessment facility …:[http://www.cgdev.org/files/1426240_file_priority_setting_global_health_FINAL.pdf]. …

Private practice in the health sector was re-introduced from 1980, when China began its economic reform from a planned … the point of view of health policy- making as little is known about it. The aim of this study was to describe policies and …

Poor quality essential medicines, both substandard and counterfeit, are serious but neglected public health problems … differences between public health and intellectual property approaches to the problem. It is argued that public health, and not … the World Health Organization (WHO) should be encouraged and supported to take a more prominent role in improving the …

framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural …