Health Care Analysis Paper

Africa has made exponential development and economic growth over the past few years but Africa’s overall performance has been slow due to health markers. Some of these health indicators include insufficient human resources, constant inequalities, weak statistical health data, insufficient monitoring and evaluation capacity and insufficient internal and external resources. I decided to analyze the healthcare issues in Africa rather than analyze other issues in Africa because I wanted to better understand the implications prohibiting Africa from becoming a healthier place for its citizens before taking initiative to better this situation. Since health is a component of human capital, it is often considered a factor of wealth as well. The close connection between health and wealth has been emphasized in a recent paper by Pritchett and Summers (1996) who studied a …show more content…
Factors of healthcare development such as crude death rate, fertility and longevity and infant mortality are illustrated to show progress in health development over the past decade. To provide a specific example, the life expectancy for the entire continent has recently increased by five years with a smaller rate for infant mortality. However, the level of health care development is still quite low when compared to other continents with similar socioeconomic development. Unfortunately, the quality of life has not improved at a parallel rate to the actual indicators of health growth. Infant mortality is negatively correlated with per capita revenue, primary and secondary school enrollment and immunization coverage rates. As you might expect, higher income and higher secondary school enrollment are associated with lower fertility and inferior death