Abstract:Background
At the end of the MDG era, although Ghana was one of the few countries commended to have halved extreme poverty, the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) was dire. Currently, U5MR is still below the national and global SDG target. Government has over the years introduced various social and policy interventions to improve on the socioeconomic status of households to aid in better health outcomes. In this regard, we hypothesize that household wealth should therefore not influence under-five child deaths … Show more
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