Public Spending In Health Sector in Malawi

Factors Associated With Coverage of Health Insurance Among Women in Malawi

“…Although per capita total expenditure on health is better than most low-income countries in the sub-Saharan region at US$39 (23), it is still lower than what is required for Malawi to provide essential healthcare as outlined in the national Essential Healthcare Package (23). Consequently, only 44% of health facilities in the country are able to comprehensively deliver the health services under this package (23). Failure to provide adequate medicines and health workers, insufficient equipment, and poor access to emergency services (22) have necessitated the use of out-of-pocket expenditure to access quality healthcare.…”

“…Despite its dominance in providing free healthcare, government's increasingly insufficient health expenditure allocation to the health system has led to failure in state service delivery, shifting the burden of access to effective healthcare to the private healthcare providers (8). Although per capita total expenditure on health is better than most low-income countries in the sub-Saharan region at US$39 (23), it is still lower than what is required for Malawi to provide essential healthcare as outlined in the national Essential Healthcare Package (23). Consequently, only 44% of health facilities in the country are able to comprehensively deliver the health services under this package (23).…”

The effectiveness of public health spending in Sub-Saharan Africa.

“…The effectiveness of PHS in enhancing population health outcomes in developed countries has been the subject of extensive research (Berger & Messer, 2002;Budhdeo et al, 2015;Hsu, 2013;Lera-Lopez et al, 2016;Onofrei et al, 2021). However, the topic has received little attention in the context of sub-Saharan countries, where the existing empirical literature on PHS in SSA has produced inconsistent results (Chansa et al, 2020;Filmer & Pritchett, 1999;Grekou & Perez, 2014;Makuta & O'Hare, 2015;Mustapha et al, 2021;Osakede, 2021). Most of these studies used different mortality-based indicators to measure population health outcomes, relied on aggregated data to measure PHS, and investigated the direct relationship between PHS and population health outcomes by concentrating on the ultimate effect of PHS on population health outcomes.…”