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">Financing Global Health 2012: The End of the Golden Age?<br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation IHME, February 6,
2013 <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">Website:
<a href="http://bit.ly/V5cHdH" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style>http://bit.ly/V5cHdH</span></font></a></span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><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">“………..Report
on global health expenditure and includes preliminary estimates for health
financing in the most recent years. <br>
In this year’s report, IHME built on its past data collection and
analysis efforts to monitor the resources made available through development
assistance for health (DAH) and government health expenditure (GHE). <br>
It confirms what many in the global health community expected: After reaching a
historic high in 2010, overall DAH declined slightly in 2011, with some
organizations and governments spending more and others spending less.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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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">The
research suggests that, despite global macroeconomic stress, the international
community continues to respond to the need for health and health system support
across the developing world. Over the past two years in particular, DAH has
been sustained at levels of spending that would have been inconceivable a
decade ago<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">The
recent plateau in development assistance for health DAH, however, raises a
number of considerations for decision-makers and other global health
stakeholders.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Among
other improvements in this year’s edition of Financing Global Health, the
information produced by the <i><span style="font-style:italic">Global Burden of
Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 <a href="http://bit.ly/159RH7c" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style>(GBD 2010</span></font></a>)</span></i>
added another significant facet to the analysis. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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The comprehensive and comparable estimates of disability and premature
mortality produced by GBD 2010 allowed us, for the first time, to relate DAH to
burden of disease…..”<br>
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Content<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">Report
overview <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Chapter
2: Recipients of development assistance for health <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Chapter
3: Development assistance for health to specific health focus areas <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Chapter
4: Sources of development assistance for health <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Chapter
5: Government health expenditure <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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Conclusions and references <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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annex <br>
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