Spending for Health in Malawi : Current Trends and Strategies to Improve Efficiency and Equity in Health Financing
Over the past two decades, Malawi has made remarkable progress in improving maternal and child health, as well as nutrition outcomes. The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic can reverse the gains in the health sector in Malawi. In the face...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/526731624433373135/Spending-for-Health-in-Malawi-Current-Trends-and-Strategies-to-Improve-Efficiency-and-Equity-in-Health-Financing http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35864 |
| Summary: | Over the past two decades, Malawi has
made remarkable progress in improving maternal and child
health, as well as nutrition outcomes. The Coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic can reverse the gains in
the health sector in Malawi. In the face of the COVID-19
pandemic, Malawi needs to improve the efficiency of its
current spending in the health sector while at the same time
strengthening key institutions so that service delivery
improves. Structuring spending to support the most
vulnerable and improve human capital outcomes more broadly
is also important. To support these efforts, the World Bank
recently completed a public expenditure review that seeks to
identify bottlenecks and solutions in order to improve
expenditure on human capital. This policy brief draws on the
health module of this review highlighting key gaps, and
outlining the measures required to improve financing and
health service delivery in Malawi. |
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