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- Title
Performance du système de santé camerounais dans la protection financière des ménages.
- Authors
CHOMSSEM DEFO, Charles Michel
- Abstract
To contribute to the performance of the health system, the objective of the article is to analyse over the long term its ability to protect households against financial risks related to health. The two main variables studied are the incidence of the financial catastrophe and the impoverishment of households due to health expenditure. They are measured from data from the last three Cameroonian Household Surveys (2001, 2007 and 2014) and according to several approaches to ensure the robustness of the estimates. A marked improvement in financial protection can be observed between 2001-2007 under the implementation of policies involving high social expenditure. While between 2007-2014, the situation rather deteriorated under the inclusive growth policies undertaken. Analysis in Cameroon and elsewhere shows that the best performance in health financial protection is more related to governance and economic structure than to health financing policy. A good combination of targeted financing policies is suggested. As well as the development of a less extroverted economy to support an autonomous health system, endowed with sufficient and quality supply. The said health system should also have an efficient and transparent system of implementation and monitoring-evaluation.
- Subjects
HOUSEHOLDS; IMPOVERISHMENT; HOUSEHOLD surveys; ECONOMIC structure; ECONOMIC activity
- Publication
Cameroon Academy of Sciences Journal, 2022, Vol 18, Issue 1, p323
- ISSN
2617-3948
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4314/jcas.v18i1.4