Global spending on health: Weathering the storm 2020

K.L. Vrijburg; P. Hernández-Peña

Global spending on health: Weathering the storm 2020

K.L. Vrijburg (Contributor), P. Hernández-Peña (Contributor)

Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

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Abstract

- Before the COVID-19 pandemic, global spending on health was continuing
to rise, though at a slower rate in recent years
- External aid for health mainly funded infectious and parasitic disease
programmes in low and middle income countries, while domestic public
funds focused more on noncommunicable diseases
- A group of 32 lower income countries face severe health financing constraints, which slow their progress towards health security and universal health coverage
- Although precise forecasting is impossible, the combined health and economic shocks triggered by COVID-19 will have both direct and indirect consequences for health spending and progress towards universal health coverage
- The COVID-19 pandemic caught the world by surprise, but confirmed the need for greater and more secure public funding for health.
WHO/HIS/HGF/HFWorkingPaper/19.4
© World Health Organization 2020

Original language	English
Publisher	World Health Organization
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Name	Working paper
No.	19.4

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