Financing Global Health 2009: Tracking Development Assistance for Health
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the
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*)
Related Content:
· Download the slides (2.66M ppt)
Nirmala Ravishankar, PhD Research Scientist
Institute for Health Metrics and
Paul Gubbins, BA Post-Bachelor Fellow Institute for Health Metrics and
Rebecca J Cooley, Med Data Analyst Institute for Health Metrics and
Katherine Leach-Kemon, MPH Post-Graduate Fellow Institute for Health Metrics and
Catherine M Michaud, MD PhD Senior Research Scientist Harvard Initiative for Global
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
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,
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
http://www.globalhealth.org/news/article/11284
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