A budget
for health for all
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WoRLD HEALTH, May 1986
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WoRLD HEALTH, May 1986
SOCIAL SECURITY
o money, no Health for all. Yet in many countries health budgets are being drastically cut as a re- sult of inflation and the world recession. Cutbacks present problems in the short run, but they also provide opportunities to re-examine the deployment of re- sources so as to bring them in line with Health for all priorities.
Most countries are still lacking a master plan that will husband health resources between now and the year 2000. However such a plan is the only way for countries to identify seri- ous shortfalls, to find potential new resources. to make better use of exist- ing ones, and to span the current gap be- tween what must be provided and what reasonably can be financed from available sources.
Our artist has suggested how, by drawing funds from all possible sources and combining them in an imaginative way, any given country can formulate the first essential key to equity in health:
a budget for Health for all by the year 2000.
Design by Peter Davies