caa a22 4500 386396922 CHVBK 20180307112141.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021932000025232 doi S0021932000025232 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021932000025232 Azefor Michael N. A. World Bank, Washington, USA Investing in health: value for money—with special reference to West Africa [Elektronische Daten] [Michael N. A. Azefor] Recent economic crises have severely affected national and international efforts to reduce the high morbidity and mortality in developing countries. The repercussions of these crises are manifest in declining living standards, increasing poverty, malnutrition, ill health and death. Depressed commodity prices, the oil crisis of the late 1970s, and the ensuing balance of payment problems have weakened most governments' efforts to halt and eventually reverse the economic decline. In sub-Saharan Africa the effects of these crises have combined with an ever-increasing population to render ineffective the limited investments in health care. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/S10(1989), 5-11 0021-9320 21:S10<5 1989 21 JBS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000025232 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000025232 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Azefor Michael N. A. World Bank, Washington, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/S10(1989), 5-11 0021-9320 21:S10<5 1989 21 JBS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge