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Global Health 2035
The World Bank's Global Health 2035 report sets out some bold ambitions for the next two decades, but they are achievable with the right investment.
Global rates of infectious diseases and mortality from reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health in low- or middle-income states are set to fall sharply. By 2035 they should rival the current rates in the best-performing middle-income countries: Chile, China, Costa Rica and Cuba.
The World Bank report is Global Health 2035: A World Converging within a Generation.
The report makes the case that:
* The returns on investing in health are even greater than previously estimated (nine to twenty times the return for money spent)
* Within a generation—by 2035—the world could achieve a “grand convergence,” bringing preventable infectious, maternal and child deaths down to universally low levels
* Taxes and subsidies are a powerful and underused lever for curbing non-communicable diseases and injuries
* Progressive universalism, a pathway to universal health coverage (UHC) that targets the poor from the outset, is an efficient way to achieve health and financial protection.
Source: http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/12/global-health-2035.html
