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Investing in health: the economic case Report of the WISH Investing in Health Forum 2016
Yamey G, Beyeler N, Wadge H, Jamison D
Language: Spanish
References: 155
Page: 321-342
PDF size: 763.00 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Developing country governments and aid agencies face difficult
decisions on how best to allocate their finite resources.
Investments in many different sectors –including education,
water and sanitation, transportation, and health– can all reap
social and economic benefits. This report focuses specifically
on the health sector. It presents compelling evidence of the
value of scaling-up health investments. The economic case
for increasing these investments in health has never been
stronger. Having made progress in reducing maternal and child
mortality, and deaths from infectious diseases, it is essential
that policymakers do not become complacent. These gains
will be quickly reversed without sustained health investments.
Scaled-up investments will be needed to tackle the emerging
non-communicable disease (NCD) burden and to achieve
universal health coverage (UHC). The value of investment in
health far beyond its performance is reflected in economic
prosperity through gross domestic product (GDP). People
put a high monetary value on the additional years of life that health investments can bring –an inherent value to being alive
for longer, unrelated to productivity. Policymakers need to
do more to ensure that spending on health reflects people’s
priorities. To make sure services are accessible to all, governments
have a clear role to play in financing health. Without
public financing, there will be some who cannot afford the
care they need, and they will be forced to choose sickness
–perhaps even death– and financial ruin; a devastating choice
that already pushes 150 million people into poverty every year.
In low-income countries (LICs) and middle-income countries
(MICs), public financing should be used to achieve universal
coverage with a package of highly cost-effective interventions
(‘best buys’). Governments failing to protect the health and
wealth of their people in this way will be unable to reap
the benefits of long-term economic prosperity and growth.
Public financing has the benefit of being more efficient and
better at controlling costs than private financing and is the
only sustainable way to reach UHC. In addition, people put a
high economic value on the protection against financial risk
that public financing provides. This report addresses three
key questions: 1) What is the economic rationale for investing
in health?; 2) what is the best way to finance health?, and 3)
which interventions should be prioritized?
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