Les tendances et les différentiels de l'état nutritionnel des enfants sont analysés à partir des données des enquêtes EDS conduites dans les pays francophones du Sahel (Sénégal, Mali, Burkina, Niger, Tchad et Mauritanie). L'étude couvre autant que possible la période de 1990 à 2015,...

This article reviews the constraints faced by actors private health authorities in the city of Kinshasa with regard to the fixing of care. These constraints result in high health care costs. This which in turn raises the problem of the affordability of households to medical services in a context...

Morocco’s healthcare expenditures regime growth has been in decline since 2010. The average annual growth rate went from 7.9% over the period of 1996 to 2009 to 4.4% in the recent years. The objective of this paper is to identify the demographic and macroeconomic determinants that shape...

ABSTRACT & RÉSUMÉ & ZUSAMMENFASSUNG : Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious diseases. Although, death rates from pandemics dropped globally by about 0.8 % per year, all the way through the 20th century, the number of new infectious diseases like Sars, HIV and...

A review of health budgets reflects a budget shortfall in Togo. Togolese health facilities are characterized by a lack of qualified staff, obsolete technical equipment and outdated health infrastructure. The rate of hospital attendance which was 60% in 1990, declined to 31% in 2010. Barely half...

A review of health budgets reflects a budget shortfall in Togo. Togolese health facilities are characterized by a lack of qualified staff, obsolete technical equipment and outdated health infrastructure. The rate of hospital attendance which was 60% in 1990, declined to 31% in 2010. Barely half...

In a country characterized by a low human development and precarious living conditions, this paper analyzes the determinants of child mortality in Niger from the Demographic and Health Survey of 2006. On the one hand, individual factors such as education and age of the mother have a positive...

This paper describes a two-sector demo-economic model (agricultural and non-agricultural sectors) applied to Europe and spanning the period from the neolithic agricultural revolution to the Industrial Revolution. The model describes the "incessant contest" between population growth and food...

In Burkina Faso, the analysis of the impact of the regional urbanization in terms of child malnutrition of less than 5 years, based on a spatial econometrics approach according tothe administrative division of the 30 provinces, using the demographic and health surveys of 1992-93 and 1998-99,...

Une analyse comparative pour trois pays d'Afrique – Burkina Faso, Cameroun et Togo –des facteurs de l'inégalité socio-économique relative du retard de croissance des enfants, ainsi que des variations de ces disparités dans le temps, est proposée. Cette investigation, mobilisant pour...