from the Demographic and Health Surveys, a new and comprehensive source of anthropometric data for Africa.What was the … to a nutritional or health crisis. Consequently, SSA represents an important exception to the secular trend usually found … reflect an unequal allocation of nutritional and health inputs. The socially induced variance is to be added to the biological …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

. Children’s choices are consistent with the underweighting of low-probability events and the overweighting of high …

fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these … existing health information strategies at the national and district levels; governance structures; and agendas for social …