Fiji Health Sector Review 2024 - Investing in People - Policy suggestions and programs

Jul 19, 2026

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Fiji Health Sector Review 2024 assesses health outcomes, financing, service organization, and workforce capacity to explain performance gaps and persistent challenges. It highlights rising non-communicable disease burdens, stagnating neonatal and infant mortality, uneven distribution of skilled health workers, and major diagnostic and treatment gaps for hypertension and diabetes. The review analyzes spending trends, private insurance dynamics, out-of-pocket patterns, and hospital-centered government expenditure, then formulates policy suggestions to strengthen preventative care and chronic disease management.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages155

Reading Time6 h 31 min

AccessFree to download

Executive Summary

Health Outcomes

Health Financing

Health Service Organization and Delivery

Human Resources

Going Beyond the Health Sector to Improve Population Health

Policy Suggestions and Programs

About the Report: Scope and Methods

Annexes

Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Mo Bulabula, ka Bula Balavu WISHING YOU A HEALTHY LIFE, AND A LONG LIFE Fiji Health Sector Review 2024 Investing in People Table of Contents Figures, Tables, and Boxes............................................................................................................................... 4 Acknowledgements........................................................................................................................................... 5 Abbreviations.................................................................................................................................................... 8 Executive Summary........................................................................................................................................... 10 Introduction....................................................................................................................................................... 28 Health Outcomes.............................................................................................................................................. 33 Health Financing............................................................................................................................................... 43 Health Service Organization and Delivery......................................................................................................... 56 Human Resources ............................................................................................................................................ 74 Going Beyond the Health Sector to Improve Population Health....................................................................... 86 Policy Suggestions and Programs.................................................................................................................... 92 About the Report: Scope and Methods............................................................................................................. 108 ANNEXES......................................................................................................................................................... 111 Fiji Health Sector Review 3 Figures, Tables, and Boxes Figure 1: Health spending is projected to rise in both real terms and relative to gross domestic product ..................................................................................................................... 12 Figure 2: Major gaps in diagnosis, treatment, and control of hypertension and diabetes in Fiji ........................................................................................................... 13 Figure 3: There were large variations in bed occupancy rates across Fiji’s hospitals in 2019 ....................................................................................................... 14 Figure 4: Uneven distribution and utilization of skilled health workers in the public sector ........................................................................................................ 15 Figure 5: From To 􀃆 Flipping Fiji’s service delivery around, to strengthen the foundation for preventative care and chronic disease management ..............................................20 Figure 6: Fiji’s life expectancy is low compared to other countries with similar levels of income ..........34 Figure 7: The gap between healthy and overall life expectancy has increased and is wider for women than for men .................................................................................... 35 Figure 8: Neonatal and infant mortality rates in Fiji have stagnated since 2000 ................................... 36 Figure 9: Fiji is facing a rising non-communicable diseases burden ..................................................... 37 Figure

FAQs

What major health outcome challenges does the report highlight for Fiji?

The report points to a rising non-communicable diseases burden, low life expectancy compared with peers, increased gaps in healthy versus overall life expectancy, and neonatal/infant mortality stagnation since 2000.

How does the report describe health financing trends in Fiji?

It notes projected increases in health spending, low spending relative to aspirational peers, rising private health spending, high private insurance loss ratios, and government expenditures largely directed to hospitals.

What workforce and service delivery issues are emphasized?

It highlights uneven distribution and utilization of skilled health workers in the public sector and large gaps in diagnosis, treatment, and control of hypertension and diabetes, linking these to the need for strengthening preventative care and chronic disease management.

Jul 19, 2026

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