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Percentage change in government health expenditures as source as a share of general government expenditures for all developing countries during 1999-2002 compared with 2003-2006, maps

Compare the trends in development assistance for health (DAH) as a percentage of overall government spending and country income and see how countries have fared as recipients of DAH since 1999.

The first map compares the percentages of general government expenditure (GGE) spent on health by country governments over the period 2003 to 2006, to the previous four years, 1999 to 2002.
 
The second map examines the trends in health spending as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) over the same two periods. The third map shows how much the cumulative amount of DAH received by each country has changed over those two periods. 
 
The estimates on GGE and DAH are from research published in The Lancet in April 2010.
 
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Percentage change in government health expenditures as source as a share of general government expenditures for all developing countries during 1999-2002 compared with 2003-2006

Datasets based on WHO

 

Percentage change in development assistance for health as a share of gross domestic product for all countries in Global Burden of Disease developing regions in 1999–2002 compared with 2003–2006

This map compares cumulative development assistance for health by country in the latest four years of our study, 2003 to 2006, to the previous four years, 1999 to 2002

 

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  • Explore the differences between the maps based on WHO and IMF data, which highlight the need for improved reporting of government health expenditures as source, defined as government health spending from domestic resources.
  • For the same time periods, the last map shows the change in DAH as a percentage of GDP.
  • Many countries in the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia have shown a greater government commitment to health over time. In both GGE and GDP terms, nearly every country in South America has seen an increase in health spending over the two periods examined. Ecuador, for example, has seen the share of its government spending devoted to health grow by more than 30%.
     
  • Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa show a decreasing commitment to health. There are important exceptions. As a share of GDP, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, and Madagascar all increased the amount of money devoted to health.
 
  • GHE-A: Government health spending as agent
  • GHE-S: Government health spending as source
  • DAH-G: Development assistance for health disbursed to government
  • DAH-NG: Development assistance for health disbursed to non-governmental sectors
  • GDP: Gross domestic product per capita in constant US dollars
  • GGE: General government spending

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Lu C, Schneider MT, Gubbins P, Leach-Kemon K, Jamison D, Murray CJL. Public financing of health in developing countries: a cross-national systematic analysis. The Lancet. 2010 Apr 17; 375:1375–1387.

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