GBD 2019: Tracking Development Assistance for Health and COVID-19: A Review of Development Assistance, Government, Out-of-Pocket, and Other Private Spending on Health for 204 Countries and Territories, 1990-2050
2021
This article from The Lancet estimates total health spending as well as development assistance for COVID-19 using data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019. This paper seeks to provide policymakers and health officials an understanding of the health challenges the globe or their individual countries face, as well as how these challenges change over time. The GBD papers incorporate the prevalence of a disease, injury, or risk factor and the relative harm they cause to align health systems with the populations they serve.
Led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, GBD is a global effort with researchers from over 150 countries and territories. IHME and other partnering organizations have developed numerous resources to disseminate and visualize the findings of the GBD studies, data visualizations and interactives, country profiles, policy reports, research articles, infographics, and the GBD Results Tool, which allows users to search GBD data.
Source:
Micah A et al. Tracking Development Assistance for Health and COVID-19: A Review of Development Assistance, Government, Out-of-Pocket, and Other Private Spending on Health for 204 Countries and Territories, 1990-2050. The Lancet 2021; 398(10308): 1317-1343. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01258-7.