government failed to provide relief to its people and left many of them, particularly the poor, without food, health care, or …

modern history. Epidemiologists and health scientists often draw on this experience to set the plausible upper bound (the …

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 …

On the whole, poor countries in Africa and elsewhere seem to have weathered the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19 … political settlement mediated the public health outcomes of the pandemic. It argues that while it lacks overall state capacity …, Ghana was able to surmount the limitations of its weak and underresourced public health system by leveraging 'residual …

COVID-19 has brought to the fore the issue of state preparedness in mitigating health emergencies. This paper …

not just public health and the economy but also societies. We focus on one pillar of society-trust-and explore how trust … correlates with the individual experiences of the pandemic. The analysis is based on a new global survey-'Life with Corona … personal health or the health of loved ones, but rather by increased levels of worry and stress. Our findings suggest that the …

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 …

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

shaped citizens' responses to public health policies to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic almost 15 years later …