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A GBD 2023 analysis counts the global health workforce by sex for the first time, and finds it nearly tripled since 1990 — yet still falls tens of millions of workers short of universal health coverage.
A 121-country model finds health-system emissions are as unequally distributed as the care itself — and that cutting them may not require cutting care.
Developing countries paid a record US$1.4 trillion in debt service in 2023. A 105-country study finds debt servicing nudges the health-financing mix toward out-of-pocket, but only modestly.
Sub-Saharan Africa received $11 billion in external assistance for community health worker programmes over two decades. More than three-quarters went to single-disease work, and the annual financing gap never closed.
WHO and the World Bank put the global service coverage index at 71, up from 54 in 2000. On current trends it reaches only 74 by 2030.