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 …

The study investigates the role of public health measures on child health in developing Africa for the period 1990 … mortality in Africa. It implies that introduction of MDGs culminates into increasing the rate of child survival in Africa … significant in improving child health outcomes. The proportion of under-five mortality (proxy for child health) responds more …

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 …

the highest rate of child mortality in the world. This study, therefore, investigates the effect of FDI on child health … outcomes in 39 African countries from 1980 to 2018. Neonatal and infant mortality rates are used to proxy child health outcomes …, most of these studies focused on economic growth with very little attention paid to health outcomes. Moreover, among the …

late childhood. We estimate that a one standard deviation reduction in childhood diarrhea mortality rates results in about …

last two decades, this paper re-examines the relationship between governance, health expenditure, and maternal mortality …Within the framework of social determinants of health, political determinants, specifically governance, received … study reveals that a one-point improvement in governance index decreases maternal mortality by 8-10%. We also find that good …