The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health: was it the right recipe?

摘要

10 years ago, WHO appointed the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH) to examine investment in health and global economic development. The CMH reported its findings in December, 2001, and provoked two swift reactions from global health researchers: critique of its lack of engagement with the limitations of economic growth driven by globalisation, but also guarded support for its central theme of increased global funding for health. A decade on it is timely to ask whether CMH's recipe was the right one.