Trade-offs in health investments: HIV, malaria and malnutrition
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While life expectancy has increased worldwide during the last decades, the developing
world is still losing millions of lives each year due to three pervasive illnesses: Malaria,
HIV and Chronic Malnutrition. This work analyzes the observed trade-offs between
health investments on these three conditions and their incidence in Ghana and Nigeria
during the period 2005-2015. We use data from the ...
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While life expectancy has increased worldwide during the last decades, the developing
world is still losing millions of lives each year due to three pervasive illnesses: Malaria,
HIV and Chronic Malnutrition. This work analyzes the observed trade-offs between
health investments on these three conditions and their incidence in Ghana and Nigeria
during the period 2005-2015. We use data from the OCDE credit report system database
together with data on incidence from the World Health Organization, World Bank, Global
Fund and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Results of the cross-data analysis show
that: (i) the largest investments go to HIV in both countries, (ii) both malaria and HIV
receive investments much larger than those directed to malnutrition, even when the
incidence of chronic malnutrition is larger (Ghana), (iii) investments in malaria are larger
in Ghana than in Nigeria despite that malaria incidence is higher in Nigeria, and (iv) the
Southern states of both countries receive larger health investments in detriment of the
poorest Northern areas. We identify and discuss several factors that may explain the
mismatch between health funds and incidence for these conditions as well as the
apparently low investments in chronic malnutrition in comparison to HIV and Malaria. [--]
Materias
HIV/AIDS,
Malaria,
Malnutrition,
Health investments,
Trade-offs
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Documentos de Trabajo DE - ES Lan Gaiak /
1701
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Economía /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ekonomia Saila