Quality of governance, public spending on health and health status in Sub Saharan Africa: A panel data regression analysis

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Makuta, Innocent ^a,b   O'Hare, Bernadette ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corruption; Governance; Life expectancy; Public health spending; Sub Saharan Africa; Under five mortality

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84942042356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2287-z     Document Type: Article

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