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Emerging Issues & Public Health Threats
Health Financing Schemes
Financing structures are critical to the achievement of health outcomes and developing countries often lack sufficient resources to deliver adequate services. Financial barriers such as out-of-pocket spending and user fees prevent household members from seeking curative and preventative health care making Millennium Development Goals 4, 5, and 6
difficult to attain.
Health in Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Settings
Armed conflict, earthquakes, genocide, hurricanes and other major emergencies weaken health systems and reverse development. In post-conflict and post-disaster settings, health needs increase as access to services decrease.
HIV/AIDS & Other Infectious Diseases
Since 1981 roughly 65 million people have been infected with HIV, about 25 million have died from AIDS, and 40 million people—the largest number ever—are living with HIV worldwide, according to UNAIDS estimates.
Maternal & Child Health
Access to quality health services, emergency obstetric care, family planning, financial barriers, and cultural attitudes are just some of the challenges associated with maternal health. GHI is committed to improving maternal health outcomes by increasing knowledge, understanding, and communication among a range of stakeholders to help facilitate creative interventions that may be integrated into policies and programs worldwide.
Urban & Environmental Health
In 2006, the World Health Organization estimated that environmental risk factors play a role in more than 80% of the diseases regularly reported by their organization.
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