Shared responsibilities for health : a coherent global framework for health financing ; final report of the Centre on Global Health Security Working Group on Health Financing

Our working group has considered how the thinking on domestic and external health financing and the financing of global public goods for health could be updated to account for the fundamental changes in the world since 2001, in particular the rise of the emerging economies and the improvement in the economic performance of most developing countries. This has also led to the situation where most people with poor access to health services now live in middle- rather than low-income countries. In addition, since 2001 there has been new thinking on promoting access, notably the growing movement for universal health coverage and debates on the best strategies for achieving this. Another emerging debate has been the need to replace the old, charity-based aid paradigm of donors and recipients. Our group also intended to make a contribution to the ongoing debate on the shaping of the post-2015 development agenda, including how targets for health and health financing might form an integral part of that agenda