This presentation discusses IHME's research in public financing of health in developing countries, including study design, findings, study limitations, and recommendations for governments and future research.
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Public financing of healh in developing countries: a cross-national systematic analysis
1. Public financing of health in developing countries: a cross-national systematic analysis Chunling Lu, Matthew Schneider, Paul Gubbins, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Dean Jamison, Christopher Murray
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3. Development assistance for health has increased dramatically. The vast majority of health expenditure is still financed by developing country governments and households. Ravishankar et al 2009 The Lancet
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11. Statistical Model We express key quantities of interest as percentage of GDP to avoid exchange rate and GDP deflation issues.
15. Decomposing Changes in GHE-S into Changes in GDP, Changes in Size of Government (GGE/GDP) and Changes in Government Commitment to Health (GHE-S/GDP)
16. IMF Change in Government Health Expenditure as a share of General Government Expenditure
17. WHO Change in Government Health Expenditure as a share of General Government Expenditure
18. Development Assistance for Health change in Global Burden of Disease developing regions in 1999-2002 compared with 2003-2006
19. Table 2: Time-series cross-sectional regression results for GHE-S/GDP for countries in GDB developing regions based on the Arellano-Bover/Blundell-Bond model