PUBLIC HEALTH EXPENDITURE AND INFANT MORTALITY RATE IN NIGERIA

Public Expenditure and Economic Growth in Nigeria (A Granger Causality Approach) 1983-2012

This paper examines the impact of government expenditure on the Nigerian economy for the period 1983 - 2012. The government expenditure components used as the explanatory variables in the model are: expenditures on Health, Education, Defense, Agriculture and Transportation and Communication. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was used as a parameter for measuring economic growth. In order to esta...

Infant mortality in Cabinda, Angola: challenge to health public policies.

OBJECTIVE To critically discuss, describe and analyze the data on infant mortality provided by public health services of Cabinda, Angola. METHOD The deaths of children aged less than one year old in 2007 and 2008 were analyzed in the Cabinda province. Provincial hospital records and those of the WHO office were used due to the limited quality and availability of official information. RESULT...

Impact of Socioeconomic and Health System Factors on Infant Mortality Rate in Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC): Evidence from 2004 to 2013

Background: infant mortality rate is one of the main health indicators for assessing the health system’s performance over the world. We aim to examine the socioeconomic and health system factors affect infant mortality in OPEC from 2004 to 2013. Methods: was used to examine the effects of some of the key explanatory factors (total fertility rate per women, GDP per capita (current US$), public h...

Public health in Nigeria.

The Effect of Private and Public Health Expenditure on Infant Mortality Rates: does the level of development matters?

Does health expenditure reduce infant mortality rates (IMRs)? To answer such important question we disaggregate health expenditure into private and public and divide the countries into two groups according to their level of development (income). The results obtained from employing OLS and panel data techniques on 160 countries show strong negative relation between health expenditure and IMRs. H...