The impact of increased national wealth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), on
public health is widely understood, however an equally important but less well-acclaimed …

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the health
sector has become a major recipient of development assistance from just over US $6 billion …

Poor countries account for 56 percent of the global disease burden but less than 2 percent of
global health spending. With the global commitment to the Millennium Development Goals …

Global health funding has increased in recent years. This has been accompanied by a
proliferation in the number of global health actors and initiatives. This paper describes the …

Put more directly, today and every day, people will die and lives will not be improved
because of the way global health is governed and implemented.[...] there is an urgent moral …

The strong and positive relationship between gross domestic product (GDP) and health
expenditure is one of the most extensively explored topics in health economics. Since the …

The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health report (Sachs report of 2001) has been
heralded as inspiring and groundbreaking and is being adopted as the blueprint for global …

Among Africa’ s problems, chronic poverty and poor health stand out. Traditional
development thinking has maintained that health improvements are a consequence of …

Inadequate funding for health services is often cited as a major constraint for governments to
be good stewards of their countries' health systems. Yet in most cases, the data to support …

After a decade of rapid growth in average incomes, many countries have attained middle
income country (MIC) status. At the same time, poverty has not fallen as much as one might …