The study investigates the role of public health measures on child health in developing Africa for the period 1990-2013 using a dynamic panel approach. Among others, the study examines the effect of millennium development intervention programme on child health outcomes. Our analysis reveals MDG...

Foreword / Stephan Conermann -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Contemporary Healthcare Isssues-Social, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives / Edward Nketiah-Amponsah and Oluwatoyin Odeku -- A Reflection on Contemporary Economic, Social and Cultural Healthcare issues in Sub-Saharan...

Objective Universal health coverage (UHC) is a major pathway to save many people from catastrophic and impover‑ ishing healthcare spending and address the inequality in health and healthcare. The objective of this paper is to assess the efciency with which health systems in sub-Saharan Africa...

The critical issues facing public administration manifest in droves in developing countries. I focus here on problems of administering the health sector in Africa, characterized by dire conditions and woeful results. I contrast two approaches to fostering administrative solutions in Africa's...

In recent years, the focus in many developing regions is increasingly moving away from communicable disease, where as Africa continues to face a high burden of communicable disease, malnutrition, and fertility. At the same time, the ways in which the World Bank operates are changing -...