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Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia

56 (2) 2022 77 – 92

The Effects of Health Status and Child Mortality on the African Economies

School of Business and Economics
Universiti Putra Malaysia
43400 Serdang, Selangor
MALAYSIA.

siraga87@gmail.com

Faculty of Economic, Social and Environmental Studies
University of Medical Sciences and Technology
Khartoum, SUDAN

siraga87@gmail.com

Mamoun Behairy Centre for Economic and Social Studies and Researches in Africa
Khartoum, SUDAN

siraga87@gmail.com

School of Business and Economics
Universiti Putra Malaysia
43400 Serdang, Selangor
MALAYSIA.

norashidah@upm.edu.my

Abstract

The current study aims to examine the economic effects of health status. Employing data from 43 African countries, this study utilized the Pooled Mean Group estimation method of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) for cointegration to analyze the short-run and long-run relationship between health status and economic growth. In assessing the health status, we use life expectancy, infant mortality rates and mortality rate under the age of five measures. The results show that life expectancy in the long term was positively correlated with GDP per capita. In addition, infants and under-five mortality rates for both categories were negatively linked to the degree of long-term economic growth, suggesting a positive correlation between health status and growth. The study contributes to our understanding of the significance of health status as a main ingredient of economic growth in the African continent. Therefore, African policy makers are urged to pay particular attention to their healthcare services and any other factors that can help improve the health of their people.

 

Keywords

economic growth; infant mortality; life expectancy; panel data; under-five mortality

JEL Codes

C23., I15, O40
http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/JEM-2022-5602-6
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Sirag, A., Faris, A. I., Abdelmagid, S. A., & Mohamed Nor, N. (2022). The Effects of Health Status and Child Mortality on the African Economies. Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, 56(2), 77–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/JEM-2022-5602-6

@article{sirag2022effects,
  title={The Effects of Health Status and Child Mortality on the African Economies},
  author={Sirag, Abdalla and Faris, Arbab Ismail and Abdelmagid, Salah Abdelgadir and Mohamed Nor, Norashidah},
  journal={Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia},
  volume={56},
  number={2},
  pages={77—92},
 

year={2022},
}

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