title: Trends in international health development.
abstract: "... Good population health is a crucial input into poverty reduction, economic growth and long-term economic development... This point is widely recognised by analysts and policy makers, but is greatly underestimated in its qualitative and quantitative significance, and in the investment allocations of many developing country and donor governments."--Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The international health development scene has changed rapidly during the past 5 years. From being a merely bilateral effort together with a few multilateral organisations and many NGOs new global partnerships have entered the scene and become major funding agencies. The provision of aid has also changed from small-scale project basis to financial support of large programmes. The purpose of this article is to describe some of the major transformations taken place in the organising, delivery and objective of international health development. But before presenting the new international health development agenda, a short introduction to the challenges inducing the need for renewed thinking about international aid is shortly presented.
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lien
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D003906:Developing Countries / Q000191:economics; D014943:Global Health; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D006285:Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007390:International Agencies; D008017:Life Expectancy; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011203:Poverty / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011634:Public Health; D012939:Social Planning; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors