Policy Reports

As part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública of Mexico (INSP) have conducted a comprehensive assessment of tobacco control policies in Mexico’s 32 states, examining their implications for tobacco use and its associated health outcomes.

This report describes PCE findings from early grant implementation in Guatemala and makes recommendations for global and local stakeholders. 

This report describes PCE findings from early grant implementation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and makes recommendations for global and local stakeholders. Available in French. 

This 10th edition of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s annual Financing Global Health report provides the most up-to-date estimates of development assistance for health, domestic spending on health, health spending on two key infectious diseases – malaria and HIV/AIDS – and future scenarios of health spending.

The Prospective Country Evaluation (PCE) is designed to evaluate how Global Fund policies and processes play out in country in real time and provide high quality, actionable, timely information to national program implementers and Global Fund policymakers. This report describes the PCE establishment in Guatemala, progress to-date, and highlights early findings, with a focus on the funding request and grant-making stages. Available in Spanish.

The Prospective Country Evaluation (PCE) is designed to evaluate how Global Fund policies and processes play out in country in real time and provide high quality, actionable, timely information to national program implementers and Global Fund policymakers. This report describes the PCE establishment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), progress to-date, and highlights early findings, with a focus on the funding request and grant-making stages. Available in French.

Portugal: The Nation’s Health 1990–2016 explores the progress Portugal has experienced over the last 26 years, in terms of health, well-being, and development, and the new challenges it faces as its population grows and ages.

This report draws from the Access, Bottlenecks, Costs, and Equity (ABCE) project in Madhya Pradesh, India, part of a multi-pronged and multi-country research collaboration focused on understanding what drives and hinders health service provision.

This report draws from the Access, Bottlenecks, Costs, and Equity (ABCE) project in Tamil Nadu, India, part of a multi-pronged and multi-country research collaboration focused on understanding what drives and hinders health service provision.

With almost one-fifth of the world’s population living in India, the health status and the drivers of health loss are expected to vary between different parts of the country and between the states. Accordingly, effective efforts to improve population health in each state require systematic knowledge of the local health status and trends. While state-level trends for some important health indicators have been available in India, a comprehensive assessment of the diseases causing the most premature deaths and disability in each state, the risk factors responsible for this burden, and their time trends have not been available in a single standardised framework. Based on intense work over two years, this report describes the distribution and trends of diseases and risk factors for every state of India from 1990 to 2016.

This brief provides an overview of cross-country findings for the 2013-2016 Full Country Evaluations (FCE). The FCE is a prospective study covering the period 2013–2016 with the aim of understanding and quantifying the barriers to and drivers of immunization program improvement, with emphasis on the contribution of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in four countries: Bangladesh, Mozambique, Uganda, and Zambia. 

This brief provides an overview of findings in Mozambique for the 2013-2016 Full Country Evaluations (FCE). The FCE is a prospective study covering the period 2013–2016 with the aim of understanding and quantifying the barriers to and drivers of immunization program improvement.