Report on health financing survey; June-December 1982

The objective of the survey was to find out how resources in the health sector are distributed and to identify the level of expenditure on purely personal health services; such as in-patient and out-patient services; and non-personal health services such as sanitation and health education programmes

Maternal mortality in the Thyolo District of southern Malawi

The study used the Sisterhood Method to estimate maternal mortality which uses community surveys to includes deaths which occured at home as well as health facilities. The results show an estimated MMR of 450-500 per 100;000 live births; higher than the WHO estimate for Malawi (250/100;000) and a previous study by Bullough; 1981; based on a survey of fixed health facilites which gave an estimated MMR of 263/100;000