There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor … countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health expenditure than do richer countries. What … potential lies in political or growth processes that raise this share? This depends upon how effective government health …

There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor … countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health expenditure than do richer countries. What … potential lies in political or growth processes that raise this share? This depends upon how effective government health …

expenditures was to detriment of those for the education, social security and health. In the second section we analyze the …

Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy … for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011 …, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in the 170 countries for which data were available averaged 12 percent …

A consensus exists that rising income levels and technological development are among the key drivers of total health … spending. However, determinants of public sector health expenditure are less well understood. This study examines a complex … relationship across government health expenditure (GHE), sociopolitical risks, and international aid, while taking into account the …

The aim of the report is to review existing approaches and available policy options to improve access to health care … services and financial protection against health shocks for informal-sector workers (ISWs). Along with their families, ISWs … informal sector and the literature on efforts toward its health insurance coverage. It also examines several country cases …

on the cyclical patterns of government health spending. This descriptive analysis, which covers 183 countries between … 1995 and 2010, provides empirical evidence on the cyclicality of government health expenditures, using panel data from a … global macro database, the fiscal health database. The objective is to propose user-friendly diagnostic approaches in this …

This role of faith-inspired health care providers in sub-saharan Africa and public-private partnerships is comprised of … a three volume series on strengthening the evidence for faith inspired engagement in health in sub-Saharan Africa. An … to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs), especially in the areas of health. This series focuses on assessing …

development assistance) and DAH (development assistance for health) to Liberia on overall government spending and domestic revenue … generation as well as domestic government health spending. Specifically, the study will examine the recent flows of ODA and DAH … expenditures and revenues, overall, as well as in domestic health budgetary spending and receipts (from internal and external …