PHM-Exch> Global health funding: how much, where it comes from and where it goes

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 *Global health funding: how much, where it comes from and where it goes

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*David McCoy1,*, Sudeep Chand1 and Devi Sridhar2
*1 University College London, Centre for International Health and
Development, London, United Kingdom.
2 University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations,
All Souls College, Oxford, United Kingdom.

*Health Policy and Planning - July, 2009 *
Health Policy and Planning 2009 24(6):407-417; doi:10.1093/heapol/czp026

Website: http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/24/6/407



“……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 state of global heath finance, taking
into account government and private sources of finance, and raises and
discusses a number of policy issues related to global health governance.

A schematic describing the different actors and three global health finance
functions is used to organize the data presented, most of which are
secondary data from the published literature and annual reports of relevant
actors. In two cases, we also refer to currently unpublished primary data
that have been collected by authors of this paper.


Among the findings are that the volume of official development assistance
for health is frequently inflated; and that data on private sources of
global health finance are inadequate but indicate a large and important role
of private actors. The fragmented, complicated, messy and inadequately
tracked state of global health finance requires immediate attention. In
particular it is necessary to track and monitor global health finance that
is channelled by and through private sources, and to critically examine who
benefits from the rise in global health spending…..”
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