Modelling Health Outcomes, Healthcare Spending, and Health Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

The populations of many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have poor health outcomes stemming from historical and current systemic oppression, underfunding of healthcare systems, and poor medical educational outreach. This issue is best highlighted by stark disparities in maternal mortality rates. In a newly published article in Globalization in Health, a modelling approach was used to help identify areas of improvement to aid health equity efforts in the region.

According to the authors, “Despite the increase in current health expenditures, health outcomes responded marginally [6]. Probably, because the existing health frameworks failed to account for the accurate mix of health expenditure and educational quality that could engender improved health outcomes. Consequentially, leading to a gap in this regard. The focus of the extant literature has been on the effect of health expenditure (public or private) on health outcomes without much emphasis on the moderating effect of education quality and health expenditure on health outcomes.”

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(Source: Globalization and Health, October 12^th, 2022)