The Joint Diagnosis and Policy Prescription for Health Care Sectors in Africa
- Oluwole Owoye
- Olugbenga A. Onafowora
- ( paper pages. 197 - 220 )
Abstract
This paper asserts that the United Nations Eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of 2000 compelled leaders within the African Union to jointly diagnose their health care sectors as the most binding constraint to economic growth. The joint diagnosis aligned with the important “growth diagnostics” or “getting the diagnosis right” model. In the 2001 Abuja Declaration (2001AD), African leaders pledged to set a minimum of 15% of their annual budgets to funding and improving their health care sectors; therefore, the objective is to highlight the extent to which each African country complied with the 2001AD pledge. This is important because Africa is the only continent where all state leaders jointly diagnosed and pledged to fund their health care sectors. Methodological computations showed that full compliance with the pledged 15% would have yielded an initial 17.6% improvement in their health care sectors. Additional data analysis revealed that African countries failed to comply with the pledged 15% to fund their health care sectors. This study recommends the regeneration of the 2001AD because complying with the pledge to fund their health care sectors will yield a healthy workforce needed to achieve sustainable economic growth outcomes.
Citation
Oluwole Owoye, Olugbenga A. Onafowora.
2026.
"The Joint Diagnosis and Policy Prescription for Health Care Sectors in Africa"
The Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies,
68 (2): 197 - 220.
