Impacts of Source of Health Funding on Child, Infant, Neonatal and Maternal Mortality in sub-Saharan African Countries

This work analyzed the impact of sources of health and child health expenditure on health outcomes by analyzing existing data in sub-Saharan African countries between 2000 and 2014. Development assistance for health (DAH) as a percentage of total health expenditure was associated with greater improv...

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Main Author: Clancy, Amy Kathleen
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2020
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82265
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description This work analyzed the impact of sources of health and child health expenditure on health outcomes by analyzing existing data in sub-Saharan African countries between 2000 and 2014. Development assistance for health (DAH) as a percentage of total health expenditure was associated with greater improvements in child health outcomes than government expenditure on health (GEH) but neither DAH or GEH improved maternal health outcomes.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-822652021-01-08T07:52:09Z Impacts of Source of Health Funding on Child, Infant, Neonatal and Maternal Mortality in sub-Saharan African Countries Clancy, Amy Kathleen This work analyzed the impact of sources of health and child health expenditure on health outcomes by analyzing existing data in sub-Saharan African countries between 2000 and 2014. Development assistance for health (DAH) as a percentage of total health expenditure was associated with greater improvements in child health outcomes than government expenditure on health (GEH) but neither DAH or GEH improved maternal health outcomes. 2020 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82265 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Clancy, Amy Kathleen
Impacts of Source of Health Funding on Child, Infant, Neonatal and Maternal Mortality in sub-Saharan African Countries
title Impacts of Source of Health Funding on Child, Infant, Neonatal and Maternal Mortality in sub-Saharan African Countries
title_full Impacts of Source of Health Funding on Child, Infant, Neonatal and Maternal Mortality in sub-Saharan African Countries
title_fullStr Impacts of Source of Health Funding on Child, Infant, Neonatal and Maternal Mortality in sub-Saharan African Countries
title_full_unstemmed Impacts of Source of Health Funding on Child, Infant, Neonatal and Maternal Mortality in sub-Saharan African Countries
title_short Impacts of Source of Health Funding on Child, Infant, Neonatal and Maternal Mortality in sub-Saharan African Countries
title_sort impacts of source of health funding on child, infant, neonatal and maternal mortality in sub-saharan african countries
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82265