Updated Health Opportunity Cost Estimates for 92 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Implications for Global Health Financing and Donor Allocation

Background

Estimates of the marginal cost per disability-adjusted life year (DALY) averted from government health expenditure (GHE) provide an empirical basis for allocating scarce health resources to maximise population health. Existing cross-country estimates have informed priority setting in several countries and international policy discussions but are based on data that are now more than a decade old, during which patterns of health expenditure, disease burden, and global health financing have changed substantially.