From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from : <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold" lang="EN">Financing Global Health 2011: <br>
Continued Growth as MDG Deadline Approaches<br>
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</span></font></b><u></u><u></u><b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN">Seattle</span></font></b><u></u><b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN">, <u></u>WA<u></u></span></font></b><u></u><b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN">: IHME - Institute for Health Metrics and
Evaluation<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Available
online at: <a href="http://bit.ly/12cgnL1" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style>http://bit.ly/12cgnL1</span></font></a> <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">“…..Financing
Global Health 2011: Continued Growth as MDG Deadline Approaches offers a
comprehensive view of trends in public and private financing of health
assistance with preliminary estimates for health financing in the most recent
years. It shows that development assistance for health (DAH) continues to rise,
albeit at a slower rate than before the recession. This is the third annual
publication on global health financing published by IHME. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">The research also
demonstrates continued strong growth in country expenditure on health, as well
as the ongoing effects of DAH on spending for health by governments. The
findings were published simultaneously in Health Affairs on December 14, 2011.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">With the deadline for the
Millennium Development Goals approaching in 2015, policymakers will need to
carefully assess the trends in resource flows to decide where and how spending
can have the maximum impact on population health.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">To update our estimates from
previous years, we generated preliminary estimates for 2010 and 2011 from
models and preliminary financial statements obtained directly from channels of
assistance. We improved our estimates of DAH flowing through US-based
non-governmental organizations by collecting additional health expenditure
data.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">For our analysis of DAH for
different health issues, we improved the accuracy of our estimates by
incorporating more data about projects’ intended purposes from the World
Bank. …”<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN">Report
Content<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Report Overview <br>
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</span></font><b><font face="Calibri-Bold" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri-Bold;font-weight:bold">PART ONE: DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE FOR
HEALTH</span></font></b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Chapter 1: Tracking
development assistance for health <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Chapter 2: Distribution of
development assistance for health <br>
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</span></font><b><font face="Calibri-Bold" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri-Bold;font-weight:bold">PART TWO: GOVERNMENT HEALTH
EXPENDITURE</span></font></b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Chapter 3: Spending on
health by developing country government <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Chapter 4: Impact of
development assistance for health on country government spending <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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Conclusion and references <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Statistical Annex <br>
Methods Annex <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Full report high resolution
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Full report medium
resolution (13MB pdf)<br>
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