Gerald Manthalu

Dados Biográficos

ID5991998
NOMEGerald Manthalu
PRENOMESGerald
SOBRENOMEManthalu
ASSINATURAMANTHALU G
AFILIAÇÕESMinistry of Health
ORCID0000-0002-3501-8601
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES2
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2016
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H1

  • Donor coordination to support universal health coverage in Malawi

    Open AccessLalit Sharma, Lalit Mohan Sharma et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2024

    Development assistance is a major source of financing for health in least developed countries. However, persistent aid fragmentation has led to inefficiencies and health inequities and constrained progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Malawi is a case study for this global challenge, with 55% of total health expenditure funded by donors and fragmentation across 166 financing sources and 265 implementing partners. This often leads to p…

  • Modeling Contraception and Pregnancy in Malawi

    Open AccessTrevor Colbourn, Eva Janoušková et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2023Referências: 13

    Malawi has high unmet need for contraception with a costed national plan to increase contraception use. Estimating how such investments might impact future population size in Malawi can help policymakers understand effects and value of policies to increase contraception uptake. We developed a new model of contraception and pregnancy using individual‐level data capturing complexities of contraception initiation, switching, discontinuation, and fai…

  • Assessing the potential of HTA to inform resource allocation decisions in low-income settings

    Open AccessFrancesco Ramponi, Pakwanja Twea et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Health technology assessment (HTA) offers a set of analytical tools to support health systems' decisions about resource allocation. Although there is increasing interest in these tools across the world, including in some middle-income countries, they remain rarely used in low-income countries (LICs). In general, the focus of HTA is narrow, mostly limited to assessments of efficacy and cost-effectiveness. However, the principles of HTA can be used…

  • Cost of wastewater-based environmental surveillance for Sars-CoV-2

    Open AccessLucky G Ngwira, Bhawana Sharma et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Environmental surveillance of rivers and wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 detection has been explored as an innovative way to surveil the pandemic. This study estimated the economic costs of conducting wastewater-based environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 to inform decision making if countries consider continuing these efforts. We estimated the cost of two SARS-CoV-2 environmental surveillance pilot studies conducted in Blantyre, Malawi, and Kathma…

  • Allocating resources to support universal health coverage

    Open AccessPakwanja Twea, Gerald Manthalu et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Optimising the use of limited health resources in low-income and middle-income countries towards the maximisation of health outcomes requires efficient distribution of resources across health services and geographical areas. While technical research exists on how efficiencies can be achieved in resource allocation, there is limited guidance on the policy processes required to convert these technical inputs into practicable solutions. In this arti…

  • Allocating resources to support universal health coverage

    Open AccessFinn McGuire, Paul Revill et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    BACKGROUND: Universal health coverage (UHC) requires that local health sector institutions-such as local authorities-are properly funded to fulfil their service delivery commitments. In this study, we examine how formula funding can align sub-national resource allocations with national priorities. This is illustrated by outlining alternative options for using mathematical formula to guide the allocation of national drug and service delivery budge…

  • The effect of user fee exemption on the utilization of maternal health care at mission health facilities in Malawi

    Open AccessGerald Manthalu, Daichun Yi et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2016Citada por: 2Referências: 31

    The Government of Malawi has signed contracts called service level agreements (SLAs) with mission health facilities in order to exempt their catchment populations from paying user fees. Government in turn reimburses the facilities for the services that they provide. SLAs started in 2006 with 28 out of 165 mission health facilities and increased to 74 in 2015. Most SLAs cover only maternal, neonatal and in some cases child health services due to l…