TY - JOUR T1 - A New World Health Era JF - Global Health: Science and Practice JO - GLOB HEALTH SCI PRACT SP - 8 LP - 16 DO - 10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00297 VL - 6 IS - 1 AU - Ariel Pablos-Méndez AU - Mario C Raviglione Y1 - 2018/03/21 UR - http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/6/1/8.abstract N2 - Unprecedented economic progress and demands for social protection have engendered an economic transition in health in many low- and middle-income countries, characterized by major increases in domestic health spending and growing national autonomy. At the global level, development assistance is refocusing on fragile states, the poorest communities, and cooperation on global public goods like health security, technical norms, and innovation. Intergovernmental organizations like WHO need the wherewithal and support to provide leadership and to properly advance this new world health era.Between 2010 and 2015, development assistance for health (DAH) reached over US$30 billion a year,1 and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)2 helped drive unprecedented gains in development and health equity.3 While those accomplishments are cause for celebration,4 DAH budgets have tightened1 as the world confronts new health challenges, and the global health community is worried about human rights reversals by recently elected populist governments.5 Health financing at the country level looks more promising and could be the basis for a new world health era.After centuries of flat incomes per capita, the world has experienced a 20-fold increase in gross domestic product (GDP) during the last 50 years.6,7 The majority of countries that were considered low-income in 1990, including Bolivia, Bangladesh, and the Republic of Congo, have moved to lower-middle or middle-income status.8Health spending is very closely correlated with GDP and it accounts for an expanding fraction of any growing economy.9 While that is often a fiscal and political headache for richer countries, for a growing number of lower-income countries the increase in health resources has the potential to cover the average cost per capita of essential lifesaving commodities and services.9Health spending accounts for an expanding fraction of total spending for any growing economy.As … ER -