Policy Reports

This report presents findings for Uganda from the 2016 Gavi Full Country Evaluations Annual Dissemination Report. The Gavi Full Country Evaluations (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. 

Financing Global Health 2016 is the eighth edition of IHME’s annual series on global health spending and health financing. In addition to describing the trends in development assistance for health (DAH), this year’s report features an expanded discussion of domestic spending across low-, middle-, and high-income countries to describe the context in which DAH operates, identify health financing gaps, and support the pursuit of universal health coverage.

Disparities in mortality by county and $115 billion in spending raise issues of cost, quality, and value of services.

Namibia: State of the Nation’s Health explores the progress Namibia has experienced over the last two decades and the new challenges it faces as its population grows and ages. 

Financing Global Health 2015 is the seventh edition of IHME’s annual series on global health financing. This report captures trends in development assistance for health (DAH) and government health expenditure as source (GHE-S) in low- and middle-income countries.

Norway: State of the Nation’s Health explores the health development Norway has experienced over the last two decades and the new challenges it faces as its population grows and ages.

Financing Global Health 2014 is the sixth edition of this annually produced report on global health financing. As in previous years, this report captures trends in development assistance for health (DAH) and government health expenditure (GHE). This year, IHME made a number of improvements to the data collection and methods implemented to produce Financing Global Health estimates.

This report draws from the Access, Bottlenecks, Costs, and Equity (ABCE) project in Ghana, a multipronged and multicountry 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 Kenya, 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 Zambia, a multi-pronged and multi-country research collaboration focused on understanding what drives and hinders health service provision.

Financing Global Health 2013: Transition in an Age of Austerity 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 Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy – European Union and European Free Trade Association Regional Edition presents regional findings and cross-country comparisons in diseases, health, injuries, and risk factors for countries in the European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The report is based on the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 (GBD 2010), a collaborative effort of almost 500 researchers from 50 countries led by IHME at the University of Washington.