ReviewGlobalization and health2018
The financial sustainability of the World Health Organization and the political economy of global health governance: a review of funding proposals.
Review in Globalization and health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed.
- Quantifying multilateral contributions to surgical system development in low- and middle-income countries: an analysis of trends and opportunities.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- United Nations Partnerships With the Alcohol Industry.International journal of health policy and management · 2026Article
- Fund contraction challenges for supplies for maternal and newborn health services in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Implications of U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization on health financing in Africa.Health policy OPEN · 2025Article
- The United States withdrawal from the world health organization (WHO), its implications for global health governance.Globalization and health · 2025Article
- Lessons learned and policy implications from an organizational reform of the World Health Organization African region country offices: a policy brief.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Sustainable Tax-Based Financing Strategies in the Health Care System: A Scoping Review.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2025Review
- Stakeholder perceptions of the WHO country offices in Africa: implications for organisational reforms.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Factors influencing national public health governance capacity: based on NCA and fsQCA.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Rethinking the World Health Organization's leadership of global health governance and the global health surveillance systems.Global health promotion · 2024Article
- Flexibly funding WHO? An analysis of its donors' voluntary contributions.BMJ global health · 2023Article
- The WHO's 75th anniversary: WHO at a pivotal moment in history.BMJ global health · 2023Review
- Monkeypox as a PHEIC: implications for global health governance.Lancet (London, England) · 2022Article
- Contributing to collaborative health governance in Africa: a realist evaluation of the Universal Health Coverage Partnership.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- WHO's Attempt to Navigate Commercial Influence and Conflicts of Interest in Nutrition Programs While Engaging With Non-State Actors: Reflections on WHO Guidance for Nation States Comment on "Towards Preventing and Managing Conflict of Interest in Nutrition Policy? An Analysis of Submissions to a Consultation on a Draft WHO Tool".International journal of health policy and management · 2022Article
- How can WHO transform its approach to social determinants of health?BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2022Article
- Suitability of two WHO research and development initiatives for COVID-19 to promote equitable innovation: the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator and COVID-19 Technology Access Pool.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2022Article
- Strengthening the WHO in the pandemic era by removing a persistent structural defect in financing.Globalization and health · 2021Article
- A global public health convention for the 21st century.The Lancet. Public health · 2021Review
- Rethinking and strengthening the Global Health Diplomacy through triangulated nexus between policy makers, scientists and the community in light of COVID-19 global crisis.Global health research and policy · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to experience immense financial stress. The precarious financial situation of the WHO has given rise to extensive dialogue and debate. This dialogue has generated diverse technical proposals to remedy the financial woes of the WHO and is intimately tied to existential questions about the future of the WHO in global health governance. In this paper, we review, categorize, and synthesize the proposals for financial reform of the WHO. It appears that less contentious issues, such as convening financing dialogue and establishing a health emergency programme, received consensus from member states. However, member states are reluctant to increase the assessed annual contributions to the WHO, which weakens the prospect for greater autonomy for the organisation. The WHO remains largely supported by earmarked voluntary contributions from states and non-state actors. We argue that while financial reform requires institutional changes to enhance transparency, accountability and efficiency, it is also deeply tied to the political economy of state sovereignty and ideas about the leadership role of the WHO in a crowded global health governance context.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.