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Newest firstBackgroundMalawis healthcare system faces strain due to an insufficient number of healthcare workers (HCWs). The number of HCWs currently employed falls below the Malawian governments own facility-based staffing standards, which are known as the establishment target. While vacancy rates from this target have been estimated, the health consequences of this workforce gap on the population have not. MethodsThis study…
Open article record in new tab ↗Low- and middle-income countries face critical shortages of healthcare workers (HCWs) and funding for human resources for health (HRH), while patients often receive less care time than expected. Understanding how the existing workforce capacity is used is therefore essential for improving health system performance in resource-constrained settings. We examined HCW time-use patterns in Malawi using data from a time-…
Open article record in new tab ↗Like many others, Malawis health care system faces significant health workforce shortages largely due to budget constraints that limit training, recruitment and retention of staff. A crucial question is how to best allocate a limited budget to expand different health care workers (HCW) cadres so that the potential health gains are maximised, which is more important now than ever considering recent withdraw and red…
Open article record in new tab ↗Global health initiatives have expanded access to treatment for infectious diseases - especially HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria (HTM) - in low- and middle-income countries. However, these "vertically"-funded programs often operate within fragile health systems, where workforce shortages and supply chain failures constrain their effectiveness and sustainability 1,2. Meanwhile, evaluating the health impact and value…
ObjectivesModelling approaches that consider system-wide delivery platforms rather than single diseases are increasingly recognized as crucial for the economic evaluation of policy and investment choices and can be instrumental in forward-looking policy formulation. This paper develops a costing approach tailored to one such model, the Thanzi La Onse (TLO) model of Malawis healthcare system, to estimate healthcare…
Open article record in new tab ↗Development assistance for health (DAH) to Malawi will likely decrease as a fraction of GDP in the next few decades. Given the countrys significant reliance on DAH for the delivery of its healthcare services, estimating the impact that this could have on health projections for the country is particularly urgent. We use the Malawi-specific, individual-based "all diseases - whole health-system" Thanzi La Onse model…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundDecisions need to be made in all healthcare systems about the allocation of available resources with the aim of improving population health. Evidence is needed for these decisions, which can have enormous consequences for population health, especially in lower-income settings. MethodsWe address this need using an individual-based simulation model of healthcare need and service delivery that we have devel…
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