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From: Equity, Health & Human Development on behalf of Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)
Sent: Tue 7/31/2007 10:11 AM
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Subject: [EQ] What Should A Country Spend On Health Care?
What Should A Country Spend On Health Care?
William D. Savedoff , Senior partner at Social Insight, an international
consulting firm with expertise in economic and political analysis of
public policy, in Portland, Maine. He was formerly affiliated with the
World Health Organization and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Health Affairs, July/August 2007 - Volume 26, Number 4 Global Health
Financing
doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.4.962 - Project HOPE
Available online at:
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/26/4/962
<http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/26/4/962>
".....Per capita health spending across countries ranges by more than
100 to 1, leading many people to ask, "What should a country spend on
health care?" This paper discusses four approaches to this question and
demonstrates how each approach, in effect, answers a slightly different
question, all of which are important to public policy decisions
regarding health care spending. The paper also addresses a commonly
cited World Health Organization statement that countries should spend 5
percent of national income on health care services..."
"....It is difficult to say what a country should spend on maintaining
and improving its population's health without knowing the challenges it
faces. The appropriate amount of spending in a country with a
malnourished population facing endemic malaria and an epidemic of
HIV/AIDS is likely to be different from one with limited infectious
disease and a high incidence of cancer and chronic conditions. So, to be
more complete, the question would have to be amended as follows:
How much should my country spend on health, given our current
epidemiological profile?...."
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