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Financing Global Health 2013: Transition in an Age of Austerity [1]

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Financing Global Health 2013: Transition in an Age of Austerity, IHME’s fifth annual report on global health expenditure, depicts financing trends that underline the resilience of development assistance for health. This year’s updated estimates show that despite lackluster economic growth and fiscal cutbacks in many developed countries, total assistance remained steady, reaching an all-time high of $31.3 billion in 2013. While annual increases have leveled off since 2010, continued international funding is a sign of the international development community’s enduring support for global health.

The report also shows shifts in sources of financing. As funding from many bilateral donors and development banks has declined, growth in funding from the GAVI Alliance, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, non-governmental organizations, and the UK government is counteracting these cuts. Development assistance for different health issues is tracked up to 2011, revealing that the greatest increase in funding was for maternal, newborn, and child health.

New this year, IHME measured health funding for tobacco control for the first time and, using data from the Global Burden of Disease study, compared it to disease burden attributable to tobacco use. In general, the report found gaps between donor funding and disease burden in most regions, particularly with respect to non-communicable diseases; while these are a prominent and rising cause of health loss in the developing world, they are not a primary focus of development assistance for health. And many of the countries with the highest overall disease burdens do not receive the most development assistance for health.

Citation: 

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Financing Global Health 2013:Transition in an Age of Austerity. Seattle, WA: IHME, 2014.

Related Documents: 
Financing Global Health 2013 report launch webcast [3]
Global health funding reaches new high as funding priorities shift [4]
Financing Global Health 2010: Development Assistance and Country Spending in Economic Uncertainty [5]
Financing Global Health 2011: Continued Growth as MDG Deadline Approaches [6]
Financing Global Health 2012: The End of the Golden Age? [7]
Global health development assistance remained steady in 2013 but did not align with recipients’ disease burden [8]
Related Events: 
Financing Global Health 2013 report launch [9]
People: 
Joseph Dieleman [10]
Christopher J.L. Murray [11]
Annie Haakenstad [12]
Katherine Leach-Kemon [13]
Ranju Baral [14]
Tara Templin [15]
Topics: 
Child Health
Health Costs
Health Financing
HIV/AIDS
Maternal Health

Links
[1] http://www.healthdata.org/policy-report/financing-global-health-2013-transition-age-austerity
[2] http://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/policy_report/2014/FGH2013/IHME_FGH2013_Full_Report.pdf
[3] http://www.healthdata.org/video/financing-global-health-2013-report-launch-webcast
[4] http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/global-health-funding-reaches-new-high-funding-priorities-shift
[5] http://www.healthdata.org/policy-report/financing-global-health-2010-development-assistance-and-country-spending-economic
[6] http://www.healthdata.org/policy-report/financing-global-health-2011-continued-growth-mdg-deadline-approaches
[7] http://www.healthdata.org/policy-report/financing-global-health-2012-end-golden-age
[8] http://www.healthdata.org/research-article/global-health-development-assistance-remained-steady-2013-did-not-align-recipients%E2%80%99
[9] http://www.healthdata.org/events/launch/financing-global-health-2013-report-launch
[10] http://www.healthdata.org/about/joseph-dieleman
[11] http://www.healthdata.org/about/christopher-jl-murray
[12] http://www.healthdata.org/about/annie-haakenstad
[13] http://www.healthdata.org/about/katherine-leach-kemon
[14] http://www.healthdata.org/about/ranju-baral
[15] http://www.healthdata.org/about/tara-templin