Africa's quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be effectively achieved without examining the quality of leadership, transitions and regimes and how they impact on the decisions and the policy effectiveness that bring about improved...

Using data from the Demographic and Health Survey conducted in Pakistan in 1991, this paper examines how the socioeconomic factors affect child survival through environmental, demographic, nutritional and health care factors. On the basis of the results, the paper suggests that the rise in...