Vast Majority Of Development Assistance For Health Funds Target Those Below Age Sixty
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Nafis Sadat; Hannah Hamavid; Trygve Ottersen; Vegard Skirbekk; Joseph L Dieleman
- Source
- Health Affairs
- Subject
- Adult
Financing, Government
Adolescent
education
030231 tropical medicine
Global Health
03 medical and health sciences
fluids and secretions
0302 clinical medicine
Age groups
Health spending
Environmental health
parasitic diseases
Global health
Medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Socioeconomics
Child
Health policy
Disease burden
business.industry
Health Policy
Middle Aged
body regions
Child, Preschool
Income
Health Expenditures
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1544-5208
Development assistance for health targets younger more than older age groups, relative to their disease burden. This disparity increased between 1990 and 2013. There are several potential causes for the disparity increase.