New approaches to ranking countries for the allocation of development assistance for health: choices, indicators and implications.

ABSTRACT: The distributions of income and health within and across countries are changing. This challenges the way donors allocate development assistance for health (DAH) and particularly the role of gross national income per capita (GNIpc) in classifying countries to determine whether countries are eligible to receive assistance and how much they receive. Informed by a literature review and stakeholder consultations and interviews, we developed a stepwise approach to the design and assessment of country classification frameworks for the allocation of DAH, with emphasis on critical value choices. We devised 25 frameworks, all which combined GNIpc and at least one other indicator into an index. Indicators were selected and assessed based on relevance, salience, validity, consistency, and availability

SUBMITTER: Ottersen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5886059 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature