Open Access#12021
Tracking development assistance for health and for COVID-19: a review of development assistance, government, out-of-pocket, and other private spending on health for 204 countries and territories, 1990–2050
Micah, Angela E; Cogswell, Ian E; Cunningham, Brandon; Ezoe, Satoshi; Harle, Anton C; Maddison, Emilie R; McCracken, Darrah; Nomura, Shuhei
Micah, Angela E; Cogswell, Ian E; Cunningham, Brandon; Ezoe, Satoshi; Harle, Anton C; Maddison, Emilie R; McCracken, Darrah; Nomura, Shuhei; Simpson, Kyle E; Stutzman, Hayley N; Tsakalos, Golsum; Wallace, Lindsey E; Zhao, Yingxi; Zende, Rahul R; Abbafati, Cristiana; Abdelmasseh, Michael; Abedi, Aidin; Abegaz, Kedir Hussein; Abhilash, E S; Abolhassani, Hassan; Abrigo, Michael R M; Adhikari, Tara Ballav; Afzal, Saira; Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku; Ahmadi, Sepideh; Ahmed, Haroon; Ahmed, Muktar Beshir; Ahmed Rashid, Tarik; Ajami, Marjan; Aji, Budi; Akalu, Yonas; Akunna, Chisom Joyqueenet; Al Hamad, Hanadi; Alam, Khurshid; Alanezi, Fahad Mashhour; Alanzi, Turki M; Alemayehu, Yosef; Alhassan, Robert Kaba; Alinia, Cyrus; Aljunid, Syed Mohamed; Almustanyir, Sami Almustanyir; Alvis-Guzman, Nelson; Alvis-Zakzuk, Nelson J; Amini, Saeed; Amini-Rarani, Mostafa; Amu, Hubert; Ancuceanu, Robert; Andrei, Catalina Liliana; Andrei, Tudorel; Angell, Blake
The rapid spread of COVID-19 renewed the focus on how health systems across the globe are financed, especially during public health emergencies. Development assistance is an important source of health financing in many low-income countries, yet little is known about how much of this funding was disbursed for COVID-19. We aimed to put development assistance for health for COVID-19 in the context of broader trends in global health financing, and to estimate total health spending from 1995 to 2050 and development assistance for COVID-19 in 2020.