Fig. 2
From: The relationship between burden of childhood disease and foreign aid for child health
a Child health aid and disability adjusted life years: Americas. b Child health aid and disability adjusted life years: Asia. c Child health aid and disability adjusted life years: Europe and Central Asia. d Child health aid and disability adjusted life years: Middle East and North Africa. e Child health aid and disability adjusted life years: Sub-Saharan Africa. DALY = Disability adjusted life year. Child health aid and DALY for 1996 and 2009, the first and last year of our study period, are presented in scatterplots for each region. A narrow bandwidth (0.6) lowess curve is used to fit the trends, which consistently show a quick rise in child health aid as DALYs increase from the least burdensome diseases to the moderately burdensome, followed by a stabilization or plateau of the amount of child health aid as DALYs increase towards the most burdensome diseases. The trends for 1996 and 2009 are similar, and there is less burden and more child health aid in 2009 compared to 1996