Strengthening public sector capacity, budgets and dynamic capabilities towards Health for All - The WHO Council on the Economics of Health for all - Council Brief No. 4

Overview

A key lesson of the COVID pandemic is that future preparedness critically depends on strengthening public sector capacity and budgets. International financial institutions and national ministries of health must thus recognize the harm done by austerity, as implemented across many countries and levels of government – making the crisis much worse than it had to be: estimated deaths are 2.5 to 3.4 times greater than official reporting by countries.