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...researchers said they noticed a gap in data on how governments were spending money that they had received from external sources to go toward health care priorities, which motivated them to conduct the study...
...found that a lot of money has been sent to developing countries in the health sector and that there was no evidence regarding the effectiveness,” said Chunling Lu, an instructor in social medicine at the Medical School and the paper’s lead author. “We wanted to know how this investment worked...
...team urged caution when looking at their findings, however, noting that important data about health care spending was often entirely missing from government records, and thus not accounted for in their results...
Going forward, the researchers suggested that countries should establish clear ways of reporting government health spending and keeping track of all domestic spending on health issues. In addition, each government should establish a target for a minimum amount of health spending, which should either remain constant or increase annually...
...it’s more than just a gimmick, a draw for people to come to a party. It’s an exercise in trust and friendship between giver and receiver. It’s a show of strength, endurance, and blatant disregard for one’s health and liver. It’s a mark of true character—there is nothing like the respect earned by going down on an ice luge. But most importantly, it’s a great way to get absolutely obliterated on plastic-bottle booze without actually tasting a thing...