Development Assistance for Health

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Youde
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
International Society ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Foreign Assistance ◽  
Development Assistance For Health ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
Health Funding ◽  
Private Corporations ◽  
Donor States

Since 1990, development assistance for health has increased approximately 500 per cent. This incredible growth is one concrete manifestation of governments’ recognition of the importance of global health within international politics. It is all the more incredible because it has continued even in times of economic recession and a generalized decrease in foreign assistance by donor states. The increase in funding for global health also demonstrates the changes in the composition of significant actors within international society. No longer solely the province of state governments, global health funding increasingly comes from non-governmental organizations, philanthropic organizations, public–private actors, and even private corporations. The funding priorities also illustrate how international society has conceptualized global health. This chapter examines the changes within global health funding over the past generation and describes the successes and shortcomings of the current funding strategies.

scholarly journals How to do (or not to do) … Tracking data on development assistance for health

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 527-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen A Grépin ◽  
Katherine Leach-Kemon ◽  
Matthew Schneider ◽  
Devi Sridhar
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Tracking Data ◽  
Development Assistance For Health ◽  
Resource Flows ◽  
Global Health Community ◽  
Health Community

Abstract Development assistance for health (DAH) has increased substantially in recent years and is seen as important to the improvement of health and health systems in developing countries. As a result, there has been increasing interest in tracking and understanding these resource flows from the global health community. A number of datasets, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, are available to track DAH. In this article we review the available datasets on DAH and summarize the strengths and weaknesses of each of these datasets to help researchers make the best choice of which to use to inform their analysis. Finally, we also provide recommendations about how each of these datasets could be improved.

scholarly journals China’s Development Assistance for Health on Key Tropical Diseases: A SWOT Analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Mei Li ◽  
Wei Ding ◽  
Lu-Lu Huang ◽  
Xue-Jiao Ma ◽  
Ying-Jun Qian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Tropical Diseases ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Tropical Regions ◽  
Development Assistance For Health ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions

AbstractBackgroundWHO focused and gave priority on ten serious tropical diseases, while China has made remarkable achievements on tropical diseases control. In addition, China has a history of more than 60 years in the health assistance, however, its assistance for tropical diseases started late.MethodsA qualitative questionnaire was distributed to inquiry the opinions of professionals on China’s health assistance on tropical diseases and published articles were searched to collect those data. SWOT analysis, as a tool of qualitative analysis, was used to classify and evaluate the current strengths, the weakness, the opportunities, and the threats of health assistance on tropical diseases in China.ResultsBased on SWOT analysis, the internal factors and external environments are obtained. The strengths are focused on China’s achievements on tropical diseases control, surveillance response system of tropical diseases, and human resources of public health; the weakness laid on sustainability of aid projects and funding, applicability of Chinese experience, and lack of composite talents; the opportunities are mainly in the global need of tropical diseases control, China’s health cooperation in Belt & Road and Africa, and the actively participating of international organizations in health assistance; as well as the threats are reflected in the complex international situation, domestic needs of tropical diseases control, and the significant gaps between China and developed countries.ConclusionThe internal strengths and weaknesses of development assistance for health on tropical diseases are clearly presented in the SWOT framework, as well as the external opportunities and threats and corresponding coping strategies. In the era of global health, China should strengthen and improve the health assistance for tropical diseases.Author summaryTropical diseases are serious infections in tropical and sub-tropical regions, with billions of persons infected and millions of deaths every year, especially in Africa. WHO also called for global efforts to control and eliminate tropical diseases. In the era of global health, development assistance on tropical diseases is important to demonstrate the soft power of national diplomacy, and China has started its health assistance in 1963. In this paper, a qualitative questionnaire and published articles were combined to collect data, and then SWOT analysis was used to analyze the internal factors and external environment, that is the current strengths, the weakness, the opportunities, and the threats of the China’s Health Assistance on key tropical diseases. Based on those results, we put forward the countermeasures and suggestions for the future cooperation of tropical diseases. At the end of this paper, we call on Chinese professionals should make use of their own advantages and actively improve the global tropical diseases control.

Financing of global health: tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007

The Lancet ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 373 (9681) ◽  
pp. 2113-2124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nirmala Ravishankar ◽  
Paul Gubbins ◽  
Rebecca J Cooley ◽  
Katherine Leach-Kemon ◽  
Catherine M Michaud ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Development Assistance For Health ◽  
Health Tracking

Global Health Spending and Development Assistance for Health

JAMA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 321 (21) ◽  
pp. 2073 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph L. Dieleman ◽  
Angela E. Micah ◽  
Christopher J. L. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Health Spending ◽  
Development Assistance For Health

scholarly journals Evolution and patterns of global health financing 1995–2014: development assistance for health, and government, prepaid private, and out-of-pocket health spending in 184 countries

The Lancet ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 389 (10083) ◽  
pp. 1981-2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Dieleman ◽  
Madeline Campbell ◽  
Abigail Chapin ◽  
Erika Eldrenkamp ◽  
Victoria Y Fan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Health Spending ◽  
Health Financing ◽  
Development Assistance For Health

Japan’s Practice in Green Aid and Its Implications for China

2016 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 201-217
Author(s):  
Qianqian Liu
Keyword(s):  
International Society ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Foreign Assistance ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Technological Cooperation ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
Aid Programs

The ever-growing global environmental challenges require new thinking of development assistance from the international society. Since more than two decades ago, many countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have started to deliver “green aid” which integrates environmental objectives into their assistance programs. As an OECD member and one of the world’s largest green aid providers, Japan has been recognized as a good example for other countries. Based on an in-depth analysis of the motivations, priorities, approaches as well as challenges of Japan in providing green aid, this article sums up three key lessons for the international society to learn in this regard, including: (a) enhancing technological cooperation; (b) exploring such tools as trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in addition to traditional official development assistance (ODA) channels; and (c) engaging in closer dialogue with recipient countries to better address their demands. In view of China’s recent attempts to “green” its foreign assistance, the article further suggests some potential areas where China can be more actively engaging itself to incorporate green objectives into its aid programs.

Global Health Governance in International Society

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Youde
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
International Society ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
English School ◽  
Global Health Governance ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Donor States

In the 1980s, health was a marginal issue on the international political agenda, and it barely figured into donor states’ foreign aid allocation. Within a generation, health had developed a robust set of governance structures that drove significant global political action, incorporated a wide range of actors, and received increasing levels of funding. What explains this dramatic change over such a short period of time? Drawing on the English School of international relations theory, this book argues that global health has emerged as a secondary institution within international society. Rather than being a side issue, global health now occupies an important role. Addressing global health issues—financially, organizationally, and politically—is part of how actors demonstrate their willingness and ability to help realize their moral responsibility and obligation to others. In this way, it demonstrates how global health governance has emerged, grown, and persisted—even in the face of global economic challenges and inadequate responses to particular health crises. The argument also shows how English School conceptions of international society would benefit from expanding their analytical gaze to address international economic issues and incorporate non-state actors. The book begins by building a case for using the English School to understand the role of global health governance before looking at global health governance’s place in international society through case studies about the growth of development assistance for health, the international response to the Ebola outbreak, and China’s role within the global health governance framework.

Financing global health 2012: describing the sources and recipients of development assistance for health

The Lancet ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 381 ◽  
pp. S53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey M Graves ◽  
Benjamin P C Brooks ◽  
Joseph L Dieleman ◽  
Joseph F Frostad ◽  
Annie Haakenstad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Development Assistance For Health

China, International Society, and Global Health Governance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Youde
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Global Health ◽  
International Society ◽  
Global Health Governance ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship

China possesses the world’s largest economy, but that economic clout has not necessarily translated into taking leading roles within existing global health governance institutions and processes. It is a country that both contributes to and receives financial assistance from global health institutions. It has incorporated health into some of its foreign policy activities, but it has largely avoided proactively engaging with the values and norms embodied within the global health governance system. This ambivalent relationship reflects larger questions about how and whether China fits within international society and what its engagement or lack thereof might portend for international society’s future. This chapter examines China’s place within global health governance by examining its interactions with international society on global health issues, its use of health as a foreign policy tool, and its relationships with global health governance organizations.

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