Socioeconomic Aspects of Malaria Control

The book investigates treatment seeking behavior and
the potential of encouraging effective treatment with
prepayment schemes as a strategy in the control of
malaria. Early detection, prompt and effective
treatment are still the most effective ways of
managing malaria in most endemic areas but all these
means are hindered by scarcity of resources. Low
health care expenditure in many developing countries
is associated with limited tax revenue and budget
stringencies. User charges have undesirable equity
effects and debt financing is unsustainable. The
above suggest a need for alternative approach to
financing health care in general and to financing
preventive diseases in particular to reduce their
burden. This book shed light on household malaria
treatment seeking behavior and the factors affecting
the choice of treatment options under a user fees
scheme as well as ex ante demand for malaria care
under a prepayment scheme. This book should be useful
to anyone interested in understanding the social and
economic aspects of malaria and the potential
benefits of using financing policies towards the
control of malaria as well as other tropical diseases
in developing countries.

Autorentext
Janet A.K. Dzator, PhD (Economics): is currently a Lecturer of
Economics at the School of Economics, Politics and Tourism,
University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests are in
Health Economics (with special interest in socioeconomic aspects
of malaria) and Macroeconomic policy analysis.

Klappentext
The book investigates treatment seeking behavior and the potential of encouraging effective treatment with prepayment schemes as a strategy in the control of malaria. Early detection, prompt and effective treatment are still the most effective ways of managing malaria in most endemic areas but all these means are hindered by scarcity of resources. Low health care expenditure in many developing countries is associated with limited tax revenue and budget stringencies. User charges have undesirable equity effects and debt financing is unsustainable. The above suggest a need for alternative approach to financing health care in general and to financing preventive diseases in particular to reduce their burden. This book shed light on household malaria treatment seeking behavior and the factors affecting the choice of treatment options under a user fees scheme as well as ex ante demand for malaria care under a prepayment scheme. This book should be useful to anyone interested in understanding the social and economic aspects of malaria and the potential benefits of using financing policies towards the control of malaria as well as other tropical diseases in developing countries.