Abstract
What does the Malawi Demographic and Health Survey say about the country's first Health Sector Strategic Plan?
Highlights
What Does the Malawi Demographic and Health Survey Say About the Country's First Health Sector Strategic Plan?
There have been significant achievements in reducing disease burden, achievements which many high-income countries have not been able to demonstrate in their identified areas of need
Prolonged widespread distribution of these nets in the country led to insecticide resistance [12], affecting the outcomes of the country’s indoor residual spraying (IRS) strategy for malaria vector control, such that the National Malaria Control Programme considered changing to a new type of insecticide for IRS [13]
Summary
What Does the Malawi Demographic and Health Survey Say About the Country's First Health Sector Strategic Plan?. Providing access to reliable and effective health services to improve health in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) is a key objective of global development strategies, embodied in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals Underpinning these high-level goals is the concept of health system strengthening, a complex construct embedding theories and approaches to improving the public health sector through six “building blocks”. These are portrayed below, and compared to the situation in 2011 when these health systems strengthening strategies began, as depicted in the 2011 MDHS [2] In view of their priority in the -Millennium Development Goals and the country’s HSSP, it is important to consider the contribution of HSSP interventions on access to, quality and outcomes of maternal, neonatal and child health services, prevention and treatment of HIV, and malaria control.
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