[EQ] Financing Global Health 2009: Tracking Development Assistance for Health

Financing Global Health 2009: Tracking Development Assistance for Health

 

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington

July 22 - 2009

 

Available online as PDF file [123p.] at:
 http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/print/reports/2009/financing/financing_global_health_report_full_IHME_0709.pdf

 

July 22, 2009–Financing Global Health 2009 provides the most comprehensive picture available of the total amount of funding going to global health projects spanning two decades. It takes into account funding from aid agencies in 22 developed countries, multilateral institutions, and hundreds of nonprofit groups and charities. Prior to this report, nearly all private philanthropic giving for health was unaccounted for, meaning that nearly a third of all health aid was not tracked.

 

This is the first in what will become an annual publication providing valid and consistent time-series data for tracking global health resources and offering in-depth analyses in the following three areas: development assistance for health, government health expenditure, and private health expenditure. This first report focuses on development assistance for health…..”

 

            Content:

·         Report Overview (1M pdf*)

·         Chapter 1: Tracking global health resource flows (200k pdf*)
·         Chapter 2: Development assistance for health (620k pdf*)
·         Chapter 3: Public development assistance for health (339k pdf*)
·         Chapter 4: Private philanthropy and development assistance (334k pdf*)
·         Chapter 5: Multilateral organizations and global health initiatives (420k pdf*)
·         Chapter 6: Distribution of development assistance for health (3.5M pdf*)
·         Conclusion and References (595k pdf*)
·         Methods annex (1.1M pdf*)
·         Statistical annex (318k pdf*)

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·         View the news release

·         Download the slides (2.66M ppt)

·         Use the datasets

Nirmala Ravishankar, PhD Research Scientist

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

Paul Gubbins, BA Post-Bachelor Fellow Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

Rebecca J Cooley, Med Data Analyst Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

Katherine Leach-Kemon, MPH Post-Graduate Fellow Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

Catherine M Michaud, MD PhD Senior Research Scientist Harvard Initiative for Global Health Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA

Dean T Jamison, MS PhD Professor, Global Health Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

Christopher JL Murray, MD DPhil Institute Director and Professor, Global Health Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

 

 

July 22, 2009 (1:30-3:30pm) - IHME Director, Dr. Christopher Murray presented the findings from the Institute’s latest study on global health funding
at a community meeting of the Global Health Council, Washington, D.C.

Funding for health in developing countries has quadrupled over the past two decades - from $5.6 billion in 1990 to almost $22 billion in 2007, driven in large part by the growing influence of private donors, foundations and non-governmental organizations. Private contributions now make up 30 percent of the health assistance pie, with a full quarter of health assistance resources flowing through NGOs. These are the latest findings out of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. The study, "Financing of global health: tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007," appeared in the June 20th issue of The Lancet and is featured in a policy report out this month, providing the first-ever comprehensive picture of the total amount of funding going to global health projects.

http://www.globalhealth.org/news/article/11284

 

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