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Erschienen in: International Journal of Health Economics and Management 1/2013

01.03.2013

Health expenditures, health outcomes and the role of good governance

verfasst von: Marwa Farag, A. K. Nandakumar, Stanley Wallack, Dominic Hodgkin, Gary Gaumer, Can Erbil

Erschienen in: International Journal of Health Economics and Management | Ausgabe 1/2013

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Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between country health spending and selected health outcomes (infant mortality and child mortality), using data from 133 low and middle-income countries for the years 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2006. Health spending has a significant effect on reducing infant and under-5 child mortality with an elasticity of 0.13 to 0.33 for infant mortality and 0.15 to 0.38 for under-5 child mortality in models estimated using fixed effects methods (depending on models employed). Government health spending also has a significant effect on reducing infant and child mortality and the size of the coefficient depends on the level of good governance achieved by the country, indicating that good governance increases the effectiveness of health spending. This paper contributes to the new evidence pointing to the importance of investing in health care services and the importance of governance in improving health outcomes.
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Metadaten
Titel
Health expenditures, health outcomes and the role of good governance
verfasst von
Marwa Farag
A. K. Nandakumar
Stanley Wallack
Dominic Hodgkin
Gary Gaumer
Can Erbil
Publikationsdatum
01.03.2013
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
International Journal of Health Economics and Management / Ausgabe 1/2013
Print ISSN: 2199-9023
Elektronische ISSN: 2199-9031
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-012-9120-3