Policy Reports

Published by the Health Effects Institute, Research Report 210 presents a study conducted by Dr. Erin McDuffie and Dr. Randall Martin of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Michael Brauer at The University of British Columbia in Canada and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), and colleagues.

A global report card on air pollution exposures and their impacts on human health.

This report describes PCE findings from 2019-2020 grant implementation in Guatemala with a renewed focus on Tuberculosis, Malaria, and Value for Money.

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

Although health in the Russian Federation has been improving since 2000, there remain many ways to foster further improvements in Russian health. Accurate health information and incisive health research will play vital parts in any concentrated efforts to improve population health in the coming years.

Having a baby should be safe throughout the world. But too many women still die during pregnancy and childbirth, and those who survive may experience painful and long-lasting complications. This report aims to draw attention to maternal disorders and the significant impact they have.

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

HealthRise was a five-year global program funded by the Medtronic Foundation, designed to improve access to chronic care for individuals in underserved communities suffering from hypertensions and diabetes. This report provides a short description of the nine demonstration projects; details of the  monitoring and evaluation framework; methods and key findings of the baseline measurements, needs assessment, and monitoring activities; and detailed methods and results from the endline evaluation. Specific results and conclusions are presented for each country, as well as cross-country themes and conclusions applicable to the HealthRise project as a whole. 

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.