December 09, 2013
What we found
As the results of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health and the Global Investment Framework for Women’s and Children’s Health have shown, the full impact of health investments goes beyond GDP to the value of being alive and healthy. When this fact is recognized, the return on investments in health is magnified several times over. The authors, a group of health policy leaders from around the world including CDDEP Director Ramanan Laxminarayan argue that the benefits of investing in health are clear, with substantial long-term economic returns; that the required investments are substantial, but not insurmountable, that the required investments for health in low-income countries should come from multiple complementary sources; that countries should be supported to develop sustainable financing mechanisms; and that ministries of finance, as well as private sector players, should be engaged to ensure investments are effective.
