Summary Background Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 aims to" ensure healthy lives
and promote well-being for all at all ages". While a substantial effort has been made to …

Background Comparable estimates of health spending are crucial for the assessment of
health systems and to optimally deploy health resources. The methods used to track health …

Background Comprehensive and comparable estimates of health spending in each country
are a key input for health policy and planning, and are necessary to support the …

Background The rapid spread of COVID-19 renewed the focus on how health systems
across the globe are financed, especially during public health emergencies. Development …

Background The amount of resources, particularly prepaid resources, available for health
can affect access to health care and health outcomes. Although health spending tends to …

Background A general consensus exists that as a country develops economically, health
spending per capita rises and the share of that spending that is prepaid through government …

Background Disbursements of development assistance for health (DAH) have risen
substantially during the past several decades. More recently, the international community's …

Background As the incomes of many AIDS-burdened countries grow and donors' budgets for
helping to fight the disease tighten, national governments and external funding partners …

Macroeconomic view Reducing the burden of endemic infections—eg, AIDS, tuberculosis,
and malaria—in the poorest of endemic infections countries would increase workforce …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted gaps in health surveillance systems,
disease prevention, and treatment globally. Among the many factors that might have led to …