Flow chart of total respiratory health care spending
August 31, 2022
US health care spending on respiratory diseases, 1996-2016
Research Article
We aimed to estimate US health care spending for 11 respiratory conditions from 1996-2016, providing detailed trends and an evaluation of factors associated with spending growth.
August 1, 2022
Varied health spending growth across US states was associated with income, price levels, and Medicaid expansion, 2000-19
Research Article
Contemporary estimates of state health spending are valuable for tracking divergent expenditure trajectories in the US and assessing the associated factors.
June 10, 2022
Development assistance for human resources for health, 1990–2020
Research Article
The objective of this study is to examine progress on implementing the Global Strategy by updating previous analyses that estimated and examined official development assistance targeted towards human resources for health.
March 12, 2022
Global and regional spending on dementia care from 2000–2019 and expected future health spending scenarios from 2020–2050: An economic modelling exercise
Research Article
We modelled healthcare spending attributable to dementia from 2000 to 2019 and expected estimated future spending from 2020 to 2050 under multiple scenarios.
November 4, 2021
Estimating total spending by source of funding on routine and supplementary immunisation activities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17: a financial modelling study
Research Article
We aimed to generate estimates of funding for immunisation disaggregated by the source of funding and the type of activities in order to highlight the funding landscape for immunisation and inform policy making.
Chart of emergency department spending across aggregated age groups, payer, and aggregated health categories, 2016 ($ billions)
October 27, 2021
Healthcare spending in U.S. emergency departments by health condition, 2006–2016
Research Article
This study’s objective is to estimate ED spending trends in the U.S. from 2006 to 2016, by age, sex, payer, and across 154 health conditions and assess ED spending per visit over time.
Financing Global Health 2020: The impact of COVID-19
September 22, 2021
Financing Global Health 2020: The impact of COVID-19
Policy Report
This edition of IHME's annual Financing Global Health report, the 12th in the series, provides updated estimates of spending on health, development assistance for health, and projections of future health spending.
September 22, 2021
Tracking development assistance for health and for COVID-19: a review of development assistance, government, out-of-pocket, and other private spending on health for 204 countries and territories, 1990–2050
Research Article
We aimed to put development assistance for health for COVID-19 in the context of broader trends in global health financing, and to estimate total health spending from 1995 to 2050 and development assistance for COVID-19 in 2020.
August 17, 2021
US Health Care Spending by Race and Ethnicity, 2002-2016
Research Article
How did health care spending vary by race and ethnicity groups in the US from 2002 through 2016?
primary health care estimates graph
August 12, 2021
Trends and outcomes in primary health care expenditures in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–2017
Research Article
We estimate primary healthcare (PHC) expenditure for each low-income and middle-income country between 2000 and 2017 and test which health outputs and outcomes were associated with PHC expenditure.
graph of effect of economic recession on universal health coverage in democracies
August 2, 2021
Democracies Linked To Greater Universal Health Coverage Compared With Autocracies, Even In An Economic Recession
Research Article
We measured the associations that democracy has with universal health coverage and government health spending in 170 countries during the period 1990–2019.
July 30, 2021
Health expenditures by services and providers for 195 countries, 2000–2017
Research Article
This research aims to provide policymakers and researchers with a single repository of available national health expenditures by healthcare functions (ie, services) and providers of such services.
June 8, 2021
Tracking government spending on immunization: The joint reporting forms, national health accounts, comprehensive multi-year plans and co-financing data
Research Article
This study utilizes the most recent data available to provide an updated comparison of available data sources on government spending on immunization.  
May 24, 2021
Estimating health care delivery system value for each US state and testing key associations
Research Article
This study aims to estimate health care systems' value in treating major illnesses for each US state and identify system characteristics associated with value.
April 23, 2021
Factors associated with the disbursements of development assistance for health in low-income and middle-income countries, 2002–2017
Research Article
Despite the key role DAH plays in global health-spending, little is known about the characteristics of assistance that may be associated with committed assistance that is actually disbursed. In this analysis, we examine associations between these characteristics and disbursement of committed assistance.
October 1, 2020
Health-care spending attributable to modifiable risk factors in the USA: an economic attribution analysis
Research Article
The objective of this study was to quantify health-care spending attributable to modifiable risk factors in the USA for 2016.
August 25, 2020
Financing Global Health 2019: Tracking Health Spending in a Time of Crisis
Policy Report
This edition of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s annual Financing Global Health report, the 11th in the series, provides up-to-date estimates of domestic spending on health, development assistance for health, spending for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, as well as projections of future health spending.
April 23, 2020
Health sector spending and spending on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and development assistance for health: progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3
Research Article
We used spending estimates to measure progress in financing the priority areas of SDG 3, examine the association between outcomes and financing, and identify where resource gains are most needed to achieve the SDG 3 indicators for which data are available.
April 23, 2020
Tracking total spending on tuberculosis by source and function in 135 low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17: a financial modelling study
Research Article
We aimed to provide comprehensive estimates of total spending on tuberculosis in low-income and middle-income countries for 2000–2017.
March 3, 2020
US health care spending by payer and health condition, 1996–2016
Research Article
This study shows national spending estimates stratified by health condition, age group, sex, type of care, and payer and modeled for each year from 1996 through 2016.

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