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

2026-04-02

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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. Since then, patter...

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DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.31.26349880

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