), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water …

outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …

reduction that can be largely attributed to the substantial progress made in reducing child mortality worldwide. We also observe …

Monitoring health is key for identifying priorities in public health planning and improving healthcare services. Life … expectancy has conventionally been regarded as a valuable indicator to compare the health status of different populations … disparities in health outcomes. Tracking the evolution of lifespan inequality is essential to promoting social justice and equity …

mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health services), concentrating on the countries that increased their health …, Rwanda, and Malawi, budget support did have a positive effect on health spending and, except for Rwanda, neonatal mortality … changes in government expenditures on health before and after the introduction of budget support. Second, I look at neonatal …

children’s human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and health, which pertain directly to some …

effects on women's wellbeing. We analyse the consequences of sterilization on maternal health. To do so, we take advantage of …

-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural … equation modelling framework, the two-dimensional decomposition integrates the feedback mechanism between health and … modelling approach and its outperformance of ordinary least squares using data from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health …

We examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and … incidence of environmentally related impacts on health simultaneously worsens the rate of inequality reduction, we find that … those countries that experience faster reduction in the level of environmentally related impacts on health tend to converge …

In 2010, the G8 placed renewed focus on maternal health via the Muskoka Initiative by committing to spend an additional … US$5 billion on maternal, newborn, and child health before 2015. Following the end of the Millennium Development Goals … and the advent of the Sustainable Development Goals, maternal health issues have continued to feature prominently on the …