Spotlight: Public Health

Reuters/David Gray - A nurse comforts a patient after she administered medicine to her at the Beijing You An Hospital.
Kent Buse and Amanda Glassman, September 17, 2008
In an article for the first edition of the International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Brookings Scholar Amanda Glassman and Kent Buse, Research Fellow from the Overseas Development Institute, review the major theoretical treatments of politics in the health sector in developing countries and provide examples of common issues that have emerged in the study of the politics of public health policy reform.
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Global Health, Developing Countries, Public Health, Politics, Global Poverty
Malaria Prevention
Jessica Cohen and Pascaline Dupas, December 21, 2007
In a new Global working paper, Jessica Cohen studies malaria prevention efforts in detail, analyzing whether free distribution or cost-sharing of anti-malarial insecticide-treated nets in Kenya affects prevention of the disease.
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Health Care, Africa, Global Health, Global Economics, Economic Development
Spotlight: World AIDS Day

Reuters/Ajay Verma - School children take part in a campaign for AIDS awareness in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh.
Amanda Glassman and Christopher Lane, November 29, 2007
The continuity and sustainability of global health financing continues to be a major challenge in the fight to stem HIV/AIDS, particularly in developing countries. Brookings Global Health expert Amanda Glassman examines country-based endowment funds as one innovative financing mechanism that could help alleviate this ongoing problem.
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Health Care, Africa, Global Health, Global Finance, Global Poverty
Spotlight: World AIDS Day

Reuters/Jacky Naegelen - A medical personnel working with Medecin de Monde conducts HIV tests at Ouidah's hospital near Cotonou.
Jacques van der Gaag and Emily Gustafsson-Wright, November 29, 2007
Reflecting on World AIDS Day, Brookings Global Health Financing scholars discuss the importance of providing low-cost health insurance to low-income households to help guarantee HIV/AIDS treatment.
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Africa, Health Care, Global Health, Developing Countries, Global Poverty
Financing Global Health Care

The World Bank/Curt Carnemark - Mother and child in Mali
As the volume of health aid to developing countries increases and allocations shift toward specific diseases, issues of aid allocation become more important to the achievement of better health outcomes. Brookings Global expert Amanda Glassman examines the effectiveness and impact of health aid in a recent Health Affairs article.