TY  - BOOK
ED  - World Bank.
ED  - World Bank.
TI  - Health Equity and Financial Protection in Malawi
T2  - Other Health Study
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Breast Cancer
KW  - Burden of Disease
KW  - Cervical Cancer
KW  - Child Health
KW  - Diabetes
KW  - Diarrhea
KW  - Disease Control & Prevention
KW  - Gender
KW  - Health Economics & Finance
KW  - Health Insurance
KW  - Health Monitoring & Evaluation
KW  - Health Outcomes
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - Health Systems Development & Reform
KW  - Health, Nutrition and Population
KW  - Hospitals
KW  - Infant Mortality
KW  - Insurance
KW  - International Comparisons
KW  - Living Standards
KW  - Malaria
KW  - Measles
KW  - Mortality
KW  - Mosquito Nets
KW  - Nutrition
KW  - Obesity
KW  - Physicians
KW  - Polio
KW  - Population Policies
KW  - Poverty Reduction
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Public Hospitals
KW  - Safe Sex
KW  - Social Insurance
KW  - Specialists
KW  - Tuberculosis
KW  - Violence
N2  - The health equity and financial protection reports are short country-specific volumes that provide a picture of equity and financial protection in the health sectors of low-and middle-income countries. Topics covered include: inequalities in health outcomes, health behavior and health care utilization; benefit incidence analysis; financial protection; and the progressivity of health care financing. Malawi's government is committed to improving equity and financial protection in the health sector. Equity is explicitly mentioned as one of the four objectives in the Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSP). The overall objective of the HSSP is to contribute towards Malawi's attainment of the health and related millennium development goals. The specific objectives of the HSSP are, therefore, to: 1) increase coverage of the high quality Essential Health Package (EHP) services; 2) reduce risk factors to health; 3) improve equity and efficiency in the delivery of quality EHP services; and 4) strengthen the performance of the health system to support delivery of EHP services. Malawi spends 6.2 per cent (2009) of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health. This is similar to the average spending in other lower income countries in Africa, which have spent an average of 6.5 per cent (2009) of their GDP on health. The central Ministry of health is responsible for the development and enforcement of health policy, regulation of the health sector, creation of standards and norms, allocation and management of resources, provision of technical support, coordination, and monitoring and evaluation
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/27156
ER  -