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BOTSWANA NATIONAL HEALTH ACCOUNTS (NHA) 2007/08-2009/10

BOTSWANA NATIONAL HEALTH ACCOUNTS (NHA) 2007/08-2009/10. PRESENTED BY: J.A. ALFRED HEALTH ECONOMIST MINISTRY OF HEALTH, BOTSWANA DATE: APRIL 24 th 2012 13 th PUBLIC HEALTH CONGRESS ADDIS ABABA, ETHOPIA. OUTLINE. Health Financing Structure in Botswana NHA in Botswana

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BOTSWANA NATIONAL HEALTH ACCOUNTS (NHA) 2007/08-2009/10

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  1. BOTSWANA NATIONAL HEALTH ACCOUNTS (NHA)2007/08-2009/10 PRESENTED BY: J.A. ALFRED HEALTH ECONOMIST MINISTRY OF HEALTH, BOTSWANA DATE: APRIL 24th 2012 13th PUBLIC HEALTH CONGRESS ADDIS ABABA, ETHOPIA

  2. OUTLINE • Health Financing Structure in Botswana • NHA in Botswana • Objectives and policy questions addressed by the Botswana 2010 NHA • Methods and Data Sources • Findings of the NHA Study • Policy implications • Conclusion • Next steps

  3. Introduction Health Financing Situation in Botswana • Health financing is pluralistic- services financed through a mix of government, private & donor funding, with government being the major source of funds. • Revenue Generation :mainly through general taxation, household’s direct OOP, employer premiums and co-payments for public and private insurance schemes, and donor funding through bilateral and multilateral agreements. • Pooling & Purchasing: mainly done by the government (both at central and local levels), and public & private insurance schemes. • Provision of Services: pluralistic- done by public, private, and private not-for-profit providers.

  4. NHA in Botswana • First round of NHA in Botswana was produced in 2006 covering 2000/01- 2002/03 financial years and provided data in aggregated form. • Since then, a wide range of changes that have serious implications on the country’s health financing structure were introduced (e.g. exemptions of vulnerable groups from payment of user fees, increased number of people on ART, increased donor support, e.t.c.). • Increased need for up to date evidence on health financing to help GoB to make informed decisions on its investment in Health. • Thus the need to conduct the 2nd round of NHA covering the FY 2007/08- 2009/10. • 2nd round of NHA is more detailed –provides health expenditures by key health programs such as HIV and AIDS, Maternal and Child health. • Both rounds of NHA were supported by development partners (1st- NORAD financially & WHO technically, 2nd – PEPFAR financially & USAID technically)

  5. Objectives of the Botswana 2010 NHA using data for 2007/08-2009/10 • Document total expenditure on health in Botswana; • Document distribution of total spending on health by financing sources, financing agents, health providers and functions; • Document the distribution of health spending by disease/service category, e.g. HIV/AIDS; maternal and child health, TB etc. • Document the distribution of funds by level of care in Botswana. • Analyse the data with regard to efficiency, equity and sustainability. • Examine the distribution of funds by inputs/line items e.g. salaries, drugs e.t.c.

  6. Methods and Data Sources • Methodology was guided by definition of health expenditure. • Health expenditure data was collected from a wide range of primary and secondary sources as follows; • Government ministries; • National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA); • Health care providers: Private for-profit/Mission (not-for-profit) Facilities • Insurance Schemes(Public and private); • Representative Sample of Employers • Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) involved in health; • Donors (both bilateral and multilateral); • Household health expenditure data was extracted from the 2009/10 Botswana Core Welfare indicator Survey, undertaken by Central Statistics Office (CSO) which had a Health Care Utilization and Expenditure Module.

  7. FINDINGS OF THE 2nd NHA STUDY

  8. Who are the major sources of financing health care services and goods in Botswana? Are actual expenditures on health increasing over time? • The government of Botswana is the major source of health funds, accounting for an average of 68% seconded by Private sources at an average of 21%t while donors contributed an average of 12% over the years under review. • With this pattern of health spending Botswana’s health systems can be regarded as one of the few sustainable in the WHO Africa region due to its low reliance on donor resources. As such, the country could continue with its activities in the event of sudden withdrawal of donor aid in the health system. • There was a slight increase in health expenditure over time.

  9. Has the Abuja target been reached?Are the resources adequate for providing basic package of cost effective interventions • Botswana has been spending well in excess of the Abuja target (spending at least 15% of the Government budget on health). • In per capita terms, this translated to US$256.03, US$255.91 and US$302.80 in 2007/08, 2008/09 and 2009/10 respectively. This is well above the Commission for Macroeconomics and Health target(spending at least $34 per head) and the average of the Africa Region of US$76 per capita per annum. • These figures imply thatthe country has more than adequate total health resources to fund a minimum package of cost effective interventions .

  10. How does Botswana fair in relation to other countries in the SADC Region and WHO Africa Region • Botswana is one of the two countries in the SADC region that had met the Abuja target, it ranked second in the 13 SADC countries in terms of total spending on health per capita (Zimbabwe was excluded due to lack of comparable data). • In terms of GDP spending on health, the country is also above the average of the SADC region of 4.8%.

  11. How does Botswana fair in relation to other countries in the SADC Region, WHO Africa Region and Internationally? • In establishing the relationship between health spending and health outcomes in the SADC Region, WHO Africa Region and around the globe, it is clear that much as Botswana spends more on health compared to Mauritius and Namibia in the SADC region, these two countries have better health outcomes than Botswana.  • This disparity could be attributed to the fact that health of an individual or population is a function of many variables (income, education, housing conditions, environment etc.) and the efficiency in which health systems in different countries convert inputs into outputs and ultimately into outcomes is different.

  12. Who are the major managers of health funds and how are their roles changing over time? • The Ministry of Health (MOH), was the major financing agent, controlling an average of 43.6% of THE over the three years • Medical aid schemes (i.e., private health insurance schemes) came second managing an average of 11.3% of THE. • NACA came third controlling about 10.8%of THE. • Household direct OOP payments averaged 4.2 % of THE. This is one of the lowest levels of direct household OOP spending in the WHO Africa region and in the world. With such a low OOP spending, it is unlikely that health care spending in Botswana is catastrophic.

  13. Who are the major managers of Private health funds and how are their roles changing over time? • The majority of total private funds were managed by health insurance schemes.

  14. Which health providers receive the large share of health funds and is the situation changing over time? • In overall, general hospitals receive the greatest proportion of THE, an average 53% in 2007/08-2009/10. • Botswana has a hospital-based health system, with hospitals receiving the majority of resources • Providers of prevention and public health programs receiving fewer resources at an average of 9% of THE.

  15. On what were health funds spent in Botswana? • Over half of THE (59%) during the period under review was spent on services of curative care (outpatient (28%) and inpatient (31%). • Prevention • and public health services consumed only 9%, which is not in line with the primary health care principle adopted by the • Botswana government.

  16. Policy implications • Botswana has more than adequate total health resources to fund a minimum package of cost effective intervention and more resources funded and managed by public sector: GoB needs to seriously address efficiency and equity in resource allocation between levels of care, geographic area, functions etc. • Government is the major sources of health funds through general tax revenues which is vulnerable to macroeconomic crisis: Government gets most of its revenue through international trade thus vulnerable to external shock. There is need to explore potential alternative financing mechanisms for health. • Majority of donors funding off-government budget: Government and Donors need to consider adopting a Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) toencourage use of donors and NGO resources towards a common health sector plan and Monitoring and Evaluation.

  17. Policy implications Cont’d • The majority of health resources consumed by hospitals and providers of general health administration: Government and all stakeholders need to seriously consider reallocation of health resources to primary health care facilities and services and in particular to providers of prevention and public health programmes. • The majority of resources spent on curative health care services and general administration and capital formation with little spent on prevention and public health services: Strongly need to increase resources allocation to prevention and public health services. There is need to improve efficiency and equity in health resource spending. • Resource allocation seem to follow infrastructure rather than health needs of the population: Need to develop a resource allocation formula so that it takes into account the relative health needs of the population of different groups weighted by other factors that affect service delivery.

  18. Policy implications Cont’d • Institutionalise NHA methodology: Government through the Ministry of Health should embark on sensitizing the stakeholders on the relevance of NHA in health policy design, monitoring and evaluation of health services and programmes and embark on the process of institutionalizing NHA in Botswana. • Need to conduct further financing studies: There is need to conduct further financing studies such as the benefit-incident analysis, studies on fiscal space, studies on productivity and effectiveness of services (at all levels including functionality of the referral system).

  19. Conclusion • Findings reveal that NHA information is important to health systems, without which, there is little basis for designing new ways of financing health in Botswana or delivering health services to the Batswana population. • Thus the Botswana NHA study results need to be used in any health financing policy design debates and be also used for monitoring and evaluation of the health system

  20. Next Steps • NHA institutionalisation; • Holding SHA 2011 and NHA Production tool training for NHA TWG –to facilitate and simplify the process of the development of future NHAs • Holding a NHA Policy communication workshop –to help understand the value of NHA in health policy design, monitoring and decision making and thus help to create demand for NHA. • Identification of the home for NHA – The department of Health Policy Development, Monitoring and Evaluation. • Completion of the feasibility study for the introduction of Social Health Insurance Scheme as an alternative health financing mechanism.

  21. Next steps cont’d • Undertake costing of health services to guide resource allocation. • Establishment of Health Partners Forum (a SWAp mechanism) in order to bring health partners together in funding health care services..

  22. Thank you!

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