Association between Woreda Block Grant Spending and Results: Health Table 4. Effect of Log of Per Capita Health Expenditure on Health Outcomes Indicator Coefficient/(SE) Significance Log of Expenditure Log of Penta 3 -0.0611 ** vaccinations (0.0271) Log of Penta 3 0.1050 *** vaccinations on (.0370) expenditure lagged one year Log of Antenatal 0.0784 ** Care (0.0341) Log of Contraceptive -0.0250 NS Acceptance Rate (0.0404) Log of Contraceptive 0.1373 *** Acceptance on (.0487) expenditure lagged one year Log of Deliveries by 0.2438 *** Skilled Birth (0.0732) Attendants Notes: Based on cross-time pooled dataset from 2008-2011. Standard errors given in parenthesis. Significance is defined as: 1,664 *** at 1% level and ** at 5% level. Number of Observations: for Penta 3, 2,277 for ANC, 2,243 for Contraceptive acceptance rate and 2,154 for Deliveries by skilled birth attendants. About twenty percent of PBS financed IGFT resources at the local level are used in the health sector, mainly for hiring frontline community health workers called health extension workers (HEWs). HEWs do not provide extensive curative services. Their main purpose is threefold: to promote behavioral change leading to the adoption of healthy lifestyle practices among members in their community; to act as a referral mechanism for complicated cases, such as difficult pregnancies or severe child malnutrition, to be brought to a Health Center for treatment by trained health provide periodically schedulable services, professionals; and to the most important among them are immunization, family planning (insertion of contraceptive implants) and antenatal care. See Box 1 for a full description of HEWs’ remit. Regarding maternal health, HEWs are supposed to mobilize women to seek skilled care by “Skilled Birth Attendants”. This title is reserved for nurses, health officers, trained midwives and physicians. While taking up a smaller percentage of expenditure, these positions are nonetheless funded from the local level budget.
Association between Woreda Block Grant Spending and Results: Health Table 4. Effect of Log of Per Capita Health Expenditure on Health Outcomes Indicator Coefficient/(SE) Significance Log of Expenditure Log of Penta 3 vaccinations -0.0611 (0.0271) ** Log of Penta 3 vaccinations on expenditure lagged one year 0.1050 (.0370) *** Log of Antenatal Care 0.0784 (0.0341) ** Log of Contraceptive Acceptance Rate -0.0250 (0.0404) NS Log of Contraceptive Acceptance on expenditure lagged one year 0.1373 (.0487) *** Log of Deliveries by Skilled Birth Attendants 0.2438 (0.0732) *** Notes: Based on cross-time pooled dataset from 2008-2011. Standard errors given in parenthesis. Significance is defined as: *** at 1% level and ** at 5% level. Number of Observations: 1,664 for Penta 3, 2,277 for ANC, 2,243 for Contraceptive acceptance rate and 2,154 for Deliveries by skilled birth attendants. About twenty percent of PBS financed IGFT resources at the local level are used in the health sector, mainly for hiring frontline community health workers called health extension workers (HEWs). HEWs do not provide extensive curative services. Their main purpose is threefold: to promote behavioral change leading to the adoption of healthy lifestyle practices among members in their community; to act as a referral mechanism for complicated cases, such as difficult pregnancies or severe child malnutrition, to be brought to a Health Center for treatment by trained health professionals; and to provide periodically schedulable services, the most important among them are immunization, family planning (insertion of contraceptive implants) and antenatal care. See Box 1 for a full description of HEWs’ remit. Regarding maternal health, HEWs are supposed to mobilize women to seek skilled care by “Skilled Birth Attendants”. This title is reserved for nurses, health officers, trained midwives and physicians. While taking up a smaller percentage of expenditure, these positions are nonetheless funded from the local level budget.