Definition: This entry provides the total expenditure on health as a percentage of GDP. Health expenditures are broadly defined as activities performed either by institutions or individuals through the application of medical, paramedical, and/or nursing knowledge and technology, the primary purpose of which is to promote, restore, or maintain health.
Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2012
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Rising debt and falling aid force poor countries to cut spending on health and farmers
Oxfand - 5/16/2013 8:47:30 AM
... development progress after the MDGs expire in 2015, by a UN High Level Panel considering successors to the MDGs, which is co-chaired by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, and Prime ...
Child health highlights from WHO’s health statistics report
GlobalPost - 5/15/2013 9:41:47 PM
Today the World Health Organization published its annual World Health Statistics report, which presents the most recent health data for WHO member states and reports on countries’ progress toward the health-related UN Millennium Development Goals.
Health Law’s Cadillac Tax Bite on Companies Drops by $57 Billion
Bloomberg - 5/16/2013 5:30:03 PM
The U.S. health-care law’s projected tax bite on businesses with more generous health benefits is dropping as medical spending slows and employers look to rein in the cost of coverage. The 2010 Affordable Care Act’s so-called Cadillac tax on ...
Health care workers sickened by new virus
CNN - 5/15/2013 11:22:00 PM
(CNN)-- Two health care workers in Saudi Arabia were sickened while treating patients with a dangerous new virus, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The health care workers were exposed to patients with the novel coronavirus, or nCoV ...
WHO Statistics Show Dramatic Progress In Improving Health In Poorest Countries
RTT News - 5/15/2013 3:51:01 PM
The world has made dramatic progress in improving health in the poorest countries and narrowing the gaps between countries with the best and worst health status in the past two decades, according to the World Health Statistics 2013. The WHO annual ...
Why Delegates at the World Health Assembly Should Double Down on 13
The Huffington Post - 5/17/2013 5:21:42 PM
The number 13 has long been linked to a belief of bad luck and misfortune. Well, today that superstition has changed. More importantly, if we do right by the number 13, we have the potential to save six ... the next six years. Recently, a new innovative ...
World Health Organization says single yellow fever shot enough to guarantee life-long immunity
Washington Post - 5/17/2013 9:14:57 AM
GENEVA — The World Health Organization says a yellow fever booster vaccination given 10 years after the initial shot isn’t necessary. The U.N.’s global health agency said Friday that its expert group on immunization believes a single dose ...
'Google is cheating British taxpayers out of millions... what they are doing is just immoral': Web giant accused of running 'scandalous' tax avoidance scheme by whistleblower
Daily Mail - 5/19/2013 8:43:56 AM
Mail Online has contacted Google but no one was available for comment. Elsewhere, Amazon could be hauled before the Public Accounts Committee just like Google, MPs have suggested after serious doubts were raised about how much tax it pays in ...
Novel Coronavirus Might Spread Between Humans, Says World Health Organization
Medical News Today - 5/15/2013 6:54:09 AM
The Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) is emerging as a major challenge for countries across the world and experts from the various governments that have been affected are desperately looking for some form of guidance. A new report by the World Health Organization ...
Poland set for biggest-ever increase in military spending
Financial Times - 5/19/2013 4:14:55 PM
Polish officials say they intend to push for the involvement of local arms producers in new contracts for rockets, ships, helicopters, tanks and small arms, and will favour bids that include a hefty dose of technology transfers, offsets, and Polish final ...
Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent
Townhall.com - 5/18/2013 2:04:16 AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that country. The president asked ...
New India budget chops defense spending
Deutsche Welle - 5/19/2013 5:30:40 AM
A lot of attention was paid to the agricultural sector as well. Despite all the talk about, and success of, India's IT and telecommunications sectors, two thirds of the country still lives from farming, or is indirectly dependent on it, noted Jha.
Budget health spending largely spared surgeon's knife, says CHA
CathNews - 5/15/2013 1:39:11 AM
Last night’s Budget largely insulated health from major cuts in spending and provided a welcome boost to cancer ... improve social determinants of health in a country that is currently burdened by unacceptable levels of health inequity.
WHO statistics show narrowing health gap between countries with best and worst health status
Thomson Reuters Foundation - 5/15/2013 3:29:33 PM
The world has made dramatic progress in improving health in the poorest countries and narrowing the gaps between countries with the best and worst health status in the past two decades, according to the World Health Statistics 2013. The WHO annual ...
Budget Office Says Obama Plan Would Cut Deficit by $1 Trillion
New York Times - 5/18/2013 4:08:56 PM
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s budget proposal, if enacted into law, would cut more than $1.1 trillion from the government’s projected deficits over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Friday. It would ...
