We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the … Development Facility of the United Nations Development Programme is successful in improving maternal health-care utilization … health-care utilization. The effectiveness of the programme would have been greater in the absence of conflict, although the …

The central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in … Mozambique. The text shows that of the social determinants of health, institutions play a central role in the performance of the … Mozambican health sector-and, through it, economic and social development-particularly for the poorer and more vulnerable, such …

The social determinants of health have not been studied extensively in low-income contexts, where most studies focus on … access to medical care. We undertake a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of the social determinants of health in … health care nor material conditions are related to better health outcomes. Rather, we find that macro factors, proxied by …

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 …

The quality of care provided by health systems contributes towards efforts to reach sustainable development goal 3 on … health and wellbeing. There is growing evidence that the impact of health interventions is undermined by poor quality of care … in lower-income countries. Quality of care will also be crucial to the success of universal health coverage initiatives …

Scholars of public health typically focus on societal equity for explaining public health outcomes. Indeed, the COVID …

The World Bank's health sector projects in Timor-Leste - the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and … the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project - have been among the few successful operations it has … resistance to the World Bank's health policy agenda compared to its policy agenda in other sectors. In terms of wider lessons, we …

In developing countries, women's decisions concerning their children's health depend on 'empowerment' concerning … poverty measurement. The health of children is a latent variable; their height and weight are observed health indicators. We … apply the 'MIMIC' approach to the 2009 Mozambique Demographic and Health Survey. Children’s health is better when the woman …

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 …

at a rather slow pace over the past 15 years. In this study, using the Mozambican Demographic and Health Surveys 2003 and …