Reprioritizing government spending on health: pushing an elephant up the stairs?
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Reprioritizing government spending on health: pushing an elephant up the stairs?
Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011, health's share of aggregate government expenditure averaged 12% in the 170 countries for which data were available. However, country differences were strikin...
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عنوان ژورنال: WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2224-3151
DOI: 10.4103/2224-3151.206742