Sentences with phrase «global health spend»

«Smoking gobbles up almost 6 percent of global health spend and nearly 2 percent of world's GDP: In 2012 this amounted to US$ 1436 billion, nearly 40 percent of which was borne by developing countries.»

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The Microsoft founder's organization focuses on addressing issues such as global health, poverty and education, and the new gift from Buffett will likely be spent on those causes.

When the state cut back educational and health spending in order to minimize taxes, ostensibly to attract business, global companies pulled out on...

The health care debate typically hinges on the finding that the U.S. spends twice as much on medical care as other industrialized nations and yet its citizens are not as healthy as their global peers.

«Although billions have been spent on oseltamivir in the face of pandemic influenza,» the journal states, investigators «found that the public evidence base for this global public health drug was fragmented and inconsistent».

«We introduce a new definition of global health financing — one that includes additional public R&D spending for neglected diseases,» said lead author Marco Schäferhoff, PhD, of SEEK Development in Berlin, Germany.

But donors spent only 3 percent of global health aid in 2013 on leadership and stewardship, and WHO's core budget continues to shrink.

The new findings, from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard Global Health Institute, and the London School of Economics, suggest that common explanations as to why healthcare costs are so high — such as the notions that the U.S. has too many doctor visits, hospitalizations, procedures, and specialists, and spends too little on social services that could mitigate healthcare needs — may be wrong.

In the future, the team argues, global health officials should spend their time and money on responding more quickly to the early signs of a polio outbreak.

Boone, a master's student, was awarded a Center for Global Public Health fellowship to spend the summer of 2016 prior to the games conducting research in Brazil.

She then spent 3 years in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, assessing the impact of global climate change on human health.

Among the interesting topics covered in Pathways are: the changing role of the patient in the total health equation and the ways in which decentralized information is affecting their expectations and demands; the dearth of pipeline products among international pharmaceutical companies against a backdrop of increased research and development spending; the dynamics of emerging markets and their rising demand for therapies in chronic disease; the value of drugs and biotechnology solutions within the context of global economic realities.

Compelling infographics round out this robust examination, illustrating data sets on the costs of developing drugs, the major shifts in global demographics and patient needs, the explosions of data that must be mined for future therapeutic development, and the health spending of a wide variety of nations.

A study by researchers at the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI) examines links between spending on social services and public health and AIDS deaths in the United SHealth Leadership Institute (GHLI) examines links between spending on social services and public health and AIDS deaths in the United Shealth and AIDS deaths in the United States.

Professor Marie - Louise Newell, Head of the Global Health Research Institute at Southampton, says: «The study highlights the demand for a comprehensive overview of where infectious disease research spending is being made on global level to ensure that resources are allocated wisely and funding gaps are avoided.&Global Health Research Institute at Southampton, says: «The study highlights the demand for a comprehensive overview of where infectious disease research spending is being made on global level to ensure that resources are allocated wisely and funding gaps are avoided.&global level to ensure that resources are allocated wisely and funding gaps are avoided.»

The AAAS analysis also traces global scientific output, breaks down R&D spending by sectors such as health and energy, looks at the balance of R&D spending between the civil and defense sectors and weighs the use and impact of tax policies to spur R&D spending.

The second thing on the ethics and what do we do in the face of these big health challenges is something that I've spent a lot of time on, again, coming from private industry and academia before coming to the Foundation, and that is something that is exciting about our Foundation's work, we want private companies to participate in global health.

Well, when I entered Johns Hopkins as a medical student in 1970, I had spent many months previous to that traveling in East Asia, South Asia; Because I had an interest in world health, global health.

Retirees often look forward to spending time with their families, enjoying leisure activities, and for a majority of Americans — travel.Though many Americans plan to spend their retirement seeing the world, according to a recent study by The Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA) and Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies (TCRS), less than 20 percent of Americans have seriously factored travel expenses into their retirement savings plan.Travel is an excellent way to maintain health and mental vigor throughout retirement.

The global market's main source of expected growth over the next few years is projected to be emerging markets, spurred by rising standards of living and growing government spending on health care.

«We continue to find attractive values in the global health care sector where demographics, accelerating emerging market health care spending, refocused research and development efforts, and cost cutting opportunities support long - term earnings against well - known pressures, which is not reflected in depressed valuations.

A third - year student focused on food - animal medicine and public health, Barksdale spent time in Germany and Lithuania learning about animal welfare, trade and food - safety regulations and their global effect.

The first way to understand a problem, of course, is to accurately understand its scope and the failure to determine these current life, health, and death statistics means we can't test the efficacy of how any of the global foreign aid budget is being spent.

, and Putin — create new industries and jobs in clean energy products and services — reduce payroll taxes — make fossil fuels include more of their real costs, including health / pollution and our mega military spending in the Middle East — AND, apply the marketplace to force real major mitigation of global warming rise.

We know what the costs were: the lives of more than 30 000 people, most of them Iraqi civilians; cultural damages; a great increase in mistrust of, and hatred for, the West; and many millions of tax dollars that would have been much better spent on education, health and combating global warming.

Global Witness's concern is based on evidence from Congo's previous elections, when six opaque mining and oil deals lost Congo $ 1.5 billion — over twice the country's annual health and education spending.

«The world can expect, however, a return of between $ 3 and $ 34 for every dollar spent on sanitation, realized through reduced poverty and health costs and higher productivity — an economic and humanitarian opportunity of historic proportions,» adds Dr. Adeel, who also serves as chair of UN-Water, a coordinating body for water - related work at 27 UN agencies and their many global partners.

International health insurance, also known as expatriate health insurance, provides long term medical coverage for individuals and families that spend most of their time outside the U.S., such as expatriates, retirees, global employees or local nationals.

Following a drop in public health expenditure by OECD nations during the global financial crisis, spending is beginning to gather pace again, according to an art... Read more