Sabina Ampon-Wireko
Objectives: Adverse effects of weak governance on health,
is a serious subject matter not only for policy makers and
health experts but also researchers. This study therefore,
examine the effect of governance and health expenditure
on under-five and adult mortality in emerging economies
spanning from 2000-2016. This study distances itself
from the approach taken by previous researches in many
identifiable ways. First, this study is an addition to the
existing literature as it focuses on panel data set instead of
time series by (Ahmad and Hasan 2016). This approach
was found appropriate because, the large size of the panel
groups allows comparisons to be made among regional or
income level an essential embodiment for global health
care and most importantly, to achieve the SDG3, it is
necessary for countries to know detail the role of governance
on health status since the attainment of this goal
depends on ambitious and immediate action emanating
from good governance. The study applied panel procedures
namely cross- sectional dependence test, Westerlund
cointegration, cross section augmented Dickey Fuller
(CADF) panel unit root test that are capable of dealing
with the effects of cross-sections in the series. Using panel
fully modified least squares (FMOLS), the study examined
the long-run relationship between governance and
health outcome. Results: The results show that corruption
induce adult mortality in most of the panels.