The subject of this paper is health and ethnic inequalities in Mozambique, with special reference to leprosy. It is … argued that the health policies and strategies adopted in the colonial and post-colonial periods led to an unequal … distribution not only of certain diseases but also of health infrastructures. The colonial regime, by neglecting and creating …

, research has mainly focused on excess female mortality in Asia. However, as emphasized in our earlier research, at least 30 per … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …

cases with maximum fatalities. Against the structural backdrop of India's underfinanced public health infrastructure, this …

primary policy tool of governments in providing effective health. We argue that the effectiveness of spending in reducing … COVID deaths is conditional on the existence of healthcare equity and lower political corruption, because the health sector …-stage least squares (2SLS) estimation, suggest that higher spending targeted at reducing inequitable access to health has reduced …

COVID-19 causes extremely high mortality among the old. This motivates a comparison of the losses of future lifetime …'s excess mortality profile were scaled up three-fold and then came to pass in Kenya, the aggregate loss of future lifetime …

, appear incapable of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic? Using the case of maternal mortality, this paper argues that the … tremendous impact of the pandemic is rooted in the adoption of health policy reforms that prioritized targets, vertical … programmes, and an empty understanding of health coverage over quality, the need for social change, and the strengthening of the …

Government effectiveness has played an important role in tackling the crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19 … 2019 to measure the quality of government effectiveness at the local level. The findings show the importance of health …