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Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:49:38 GMT
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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:30:33 GMT
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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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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT
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- April 15, 2008, 10:00 AM to 12:45 PM
Many health systems in the developing world are plagued by unequal access to health care, low utilization of services and high user fees. On April 15, Global Economy and Development at Brookings hosted presentations from leading authorities on the impact of health insurance in developing countries.
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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
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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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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Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT
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- November 07, 2007, 12:00 PM to 12:00
The Global Health Financing Initiative hosted a presentation given by Adam Wagstaff, Lead Economist at the World Bank, on the impact of social health insurance (SHI) on health care spending, utilization, health status and labor markets in developing and transition countries.
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Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The availability of statistics is crucial in the fight against poverty and the lack of reliable and good-quality statistics is a major obstacle to assessment of changes in development indicators in many African countries. Brookings Scholar Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala discusses the importance of improving health statistics in Africa.
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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT
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- October 22, 2007, 12:00 PM to 12:00
The Global Health Financing Initiative hosted a discussion of the lessons learned in Rwanda to date with Caroline Kayonga, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Health of Republic of Rwanda. She shared experiences in scaling up community-based health insurance and reflect on challenges faced to reach universal coverage.
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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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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:00:00 GMT
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- October 22, 2007, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
On October 22, Brookings hosted a discussion of key issues in innovative financing for global health from the donors’ perspective with a distinguished panel of international government officials.
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Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:07:45 GMT
News Release
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Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:00:00 GMT
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- August 02, 2007, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Global Health Financing Initiative at Brookings and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Charles C. Griffin (04/24/07)
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Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
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- March 12, 2007 at 12:00 AM
The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC) and the Brookings Institution co-hosted a private sector forum to promote key achievements and to present practical methods for increased corporate involvement in an effective and innovative malaria response.
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:00:00 GMT
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- February 28, 2007, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
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Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Amanda Glassman (2/15/07)
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Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by David de Ferranti, International Herald Tribune (11/3/06)
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Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by David de Ferranti, The brookings Institution (July 2006)
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Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:30:00 GMT
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- September 26, 2002, 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM
One year after September 11, the importance of state stability as one component for deterring unrest and terrorism is being recognized. The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland addressed how improved health programs can help promote economic development and stability.