ReviewBMJ global health2023
The return of austerity imperils global health.
Review in BMJ global health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Brazil should use its G20 leadership to support public health systems and promote decolonisation of global health.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2024Article
- Inflation, Economic Policy Changes, and Access to Essential Drugs by Retirees in Argentina.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Can primary health care mitigate the effects of economic crises on child health in Latin America? An integrated multicountry evaluation and forecasting analysis.The Lancet. Global health · 2024Article
- Financing for pandemic preparedness and response measures: a systematic scoping review.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2024Article
- Using human rights to advance global health justice in an age of inequality.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- The combined effect of social pensions and cash transfers on child mortality: evaluating the last two decades in Brazil and projecting their mitigating effect during the global economic crisis.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2023Article
- Five Lessons for Advancing Maternal Health Rights in an Age of Neoliberal Globalization and Conservative Backlash.Health and human rights · 2023Article
- Addressing global health challenges requires harmonised and innovative approaches to the development assistance for health.BMJ global health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Recognising the world's lack of preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic, international organisations like the World Health Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund are calling for extensive additional funding to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response systems in low-income and middle-income countries, including through domestic resource mobilisation. This article examines the prospects of national health budgets increasing in such a context, drawing on new International Monetary Fund projections on public spending around the world. We show that by 2024 public spending will be lower than the 2010s average for almost half of all low-income and middle-income countries. A key driver of this new wave of austerity is the dramatic increase in public spending dedicated to repaying external debt-underpinned by growing debt stocks, US interest rates rises, and commodity price hikes. As in earlier crises, the stage is set for a situation where population health deteriorates-via compound effects of the pandemic and widespread economic hardship-while public health services required to tackle increased need are facing steep cuts. We conclude by considering what can be done to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
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