Estimating the impact of donor programs on child mortality in low- and middle-income countries: a synthetic control analysis of child health programs funded by the United States Agency for International Development.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Significant levels of funding have been provided to low- and middle-income countries for development assistance for health, with most funds coming through direct bilateral investment led by the USA and the UK. Direct attribution of impact to large-scale programs funded by donors remains elusive due the difficulty of knowing what would have happened without those programs, and the lack of detailed contextual information to support causal interpretation of changes.

Methods

This study uses the synthetic control analysis method to estimate the impact of one donor's funding (United States Agency for International Development, USAID) on under-five mortality across several low- and middle-income countries that received above average levels of USAID funding for maternal a

SUBMITTER: Weiss W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8734298 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature