Africa's quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be … the policy effectiveness that bring about improved health and living standards of the citizenry. In this paper, we study … the importance of leader characteristics and regime transitions on government's expenditure in health, and hence on infant …

Understanding the direct and indirect health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is critical in designing a holistic … public health response. This study has two objectives. First, we demonstrated the disruption of essential healthcare services … using data from selected government facilities. Second, we estimated the productivity losses from direct and indirect health …

out electronic health cards (eHC) which allow immediate direct access to the health system for asylum-seekers. In this … paper, we examine whether being eligible to the eHC as a result of the policy change has had an effect on the health … Gesundheit der zuletzt zugezogenen Asylbewerberinnen und Asylbewerber ausgewirkt hat. Für die empirische Untersuchung nutzen wir …

We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …

This paper adopts a reduced form demand approach to analyse the key determinants influencing the health status of … results. After controlling for endogeneity we find that increased wealth is strongly associated with increased health status …, raising questions regarding the reliability of such data and promoting a multiplicity based approach to representing health …

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 …