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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In the global health arena, performance-based aid projects have increased in recent years. Global health experts examine recent experiences with these projects and analyze lessons for policymakers.
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Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Data on health system financing and spending, together with information on the disease prevalence and cost-effectiveness of interventions, constitute essential input into health policy and is particularly critical in developing countries. Brookings Nonresident Fellow Amanda Glassman, along with fellow health specialists Dorota A. Raciborska and Patricia Hernández, offers a history of health spending measurement, describes alternative sources of data, and recommends improving international collaboration and advocacy with the private sector for the way forward.
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Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
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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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The amount and frequency of aid for global health projects can be volatile and uncertain, further complicating efforts to maintain programs and services. In a new working paper, Amanda Glassman and Chris Lane examine how innovating health financing might help make global health aid more predictable.
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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
With numerous new tools for financial global health aid, how should governments and donors examine and prioritize the options? Brookings global health experts examine the options and proposal a framework to help guide aid decisions.
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Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
As the reauthorization of PEPFAR builds bipartisan support on the Hill, the next five year infusion may reach 50 billion dollars for the fight against HIV/AIDS. At the same time, current economic turmoil has the propensity to diminish aid flows for health and contribute to the often short-term and volatile nature of health financing. Amanda Glassman analyzes the relationship between health aid and economic recession and the consequential depletion of government spending in developing countries.
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Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Human resources are crucial for the provision of health care and represent the largest single use of public spending on health in developing countries. Yet countries face an ongoing challenge when it comes to financing human resources for health (HRH) sufficiently to sustain an adequate supply of health workers and stimulate greater productivity and more effective health care. This article discusses ways to improve the effectiveness of HRH financing policies in developing countries.
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Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
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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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT
On October 22, 2007, representatives of development aid agencies in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands were joined by ministry officials from Rwanda and Liberia at Brookings to discuss the role that innovative financing plays in donor health aid portfolios and how to assess whether new instruments add value in a crowded health aid landscape.
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Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Amanda Glassman (2/15/07)
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Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Top Ten Global Economic Challenges Report by Global Economy and Development (February 2007)