Value for Money

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CGD NOTES
Healthcare Systems as Intelligent Payers: What Can the Global Health Community Learn from the English National Health Service?
Ed Rose et al.
February 05, 2018
Today, politicians are under growing pressure to squeeze more out of every dollar and guarantee greater access to better, more affordable healthcare for their citizens. In such a resource-constrained environment, wasting trillions of dollars on health every year is not viable. This note provides an ...
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Defining Benefits for Universal Health Care—How Governments Can Get the Most Bang for Their Health Care Buck
October 10, 2017
Vaccinate children against measles and mumps or pay for the costs of dialysis treatment for kidney disease patients? Pay for cardiac patients to undergo lifesaving surgery, or channel money toward efforts to prevent cardiovascular disease in the first place? For universal health care (UHC) to become...
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WHO’s Draft Concept Note: Treating the Symptoms, Not the Causes?
September 20, 2017
Global health policy enthusiasts will be excited to see that WHO has recently published a draft Concept Note on the 2019-2023 Programme of Work under the stewardship of its new Director-General. We see two glaring missed opportunities: 1) more centrality to universal health coverage (...
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The Future of Family Planning – Rachel Silverman
July 19, 2017
At a London conference earlier this month, some donors promised generous funding for family planning services in developing countries. At the same time, however, future support from the US is in doubt, and progress towards the FP2020 family planning goals has been extremely limited. Just h...
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The Future of Family Planning – Podcast with Rachel Silverman
July 19, 2017
At a London conference earlier this month, some donors promised generous funding for family planning services in developing countries. At the same time, however, future support from the US is in doubt, and progress towards the FP2020 family planning goals has been extremely limited. Just how mu...
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Should Theresa May Ditch the Aid Target?
April 21, 2017
Aid is amazingly good value for money. For the same money the government willingly spends to save a life in a developed country such as the UK, we save around 100 or even 1,000 lives in the developing world.
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Two Views on Fighting World Poverty
March 30, 2017
Yesterday, Lant Pritchett expressed his bewilderment at my open letter to Bill Gates advocating cash for the poor rather than chickens. I think Lant’s right and he’s wrong. We have to focus on the big picture and economic growth as a society, but I think there&rs...