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February 2024

Public Financing of Health and Accessibility to Household Care in Kinshasa

1NGUINDANI Louise, 2BAFWAFWA MUKANGAMPALA Claude, 3LUBONGO MBILU Yannick, 4KHONDE MABIALA Jean-Pierre
1 Researcher in management sciences, Institute of Economic and Social Research, Faculty of Sciences and Management, University of Kinshasa.
2Independent researcher in economic and social law
3Economist, researcher in public economics, Institute of Economic and Social Research, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Kinshasa.
4Economist, researcher in quantitative economics, Institute of Economic and Social Research, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Kinshasa.
DOI : https://doi.org/10.58806/ijirme.2024.v3i2n16

Abstract

This paper looks at public financinghealth and accessibility of health care for Kinshasa households in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Low funding for the health sector as well as household income levels hamper access to appropriate health care given the high costs. This results in an essential intervention by public authorities and their external technical and financial partners in the health sector in order to guarantee health coverage for vulnerable households against ruinous expenses. He draws upat the same time an inventory of public finances in the health sector in the DRC using a theoretical approach. And yearanalysis by aLogit model the level of accessibility to health care. This analysis is carried out by postulating the constancy of the socio-economic environment “all other things being equal”. It results from our analysis that public financing does not significantly impact household access to quality health care in Kinshasa, given that the majority of our respondents believe that the State must increase financial resources for health, the chi-square is 0.007. Thus we affirm our hypotheses

Keywords:

Public financing, health, Kinshasa households and logit model. JEL classification:H51, L12, I25

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