Understanding Health Spending for SGD3
Tracking spending for SDG3 is relevant to policy makers and complements previous efforts by Stenberg and colleagues who estimated the additional funds needed to reach SDG3 in low-income and lower middle-income countries. Furthermore, the long-term projections of health spending to 2030 and 2050 provided here contribute a useful overview of global and regional developments in health expenditure. We believe that more can be done to increase policy relevance and contextual understanding of data such as those presented—eg, by going into more depth regarding trends in current and future global health spending. An improved understanding of these trends is valuable for policy making and useful for stakeholder groups engaged in following up governments’ commitment to health.
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