A cross-country comparison of malaria policy as a premise for contextualized appropriation of foreign aid in global health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Foreign aid continues to play an essential role in health sector development in low-resource countries, particularly in terms of providing a vital portion of their health expenditures. However, the relationship between foreign aid allocation and malaria policy formulation and/or implementation among state aid recipients remains unknown.

Methods

Publicly available data were collected with the country as observational unit to set up the conceptual framework. The quality and strength of relationships between socioeconomic, environmental and institutional parameters were estimated by Pearson and polychoric correlations. A correlation matrix was explored by factor analysis.

Results

The first policy index captured policy variation related to malaria burden and de

SUBMITTER: Jezek T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8201720 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature