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Government Health Expenditures and Health Outcomes

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
AbstractThis paper provides econometric evidence linking a country's per capita government health expenditures and per capita income to two health outcomes: under‐five mortality and maternal mortality. Using instrumental variables techniques (GMM‐H2SL), we estimate the elasticity of these outcomes with respect to government health expenditures and ...
Bokhari, Farasat, Gai, Yunwei, Gottret, Pablo   +2 more
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Health Expenditure

International Journal of Privacy and Health Information Management, 2015
This chapter explores the factors associated with the growth of total health expenditure, in addition to its main components, government health expenditure and out-of-pocket payments. Results suggest that health expenditure in general does not grow faster than gross national product (GNP).
Jesus Salgado-Vega, Fatima Y. Salgado-Naime   +1 more
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Health Expenditures and Elderly Adults

Journal of Gerontology, 1985
The purpose of the study was to examine how health expenditures vary among elderly households and how expenditure patterns across other commodity groups are influenced by various factors, including higher medical expenditures. Household expenditure data for five different age groups of elderly households included in the 1972-1973 Consumer Expenditure ...
R A, Schrimper, R L, Clark
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The Concentration of Health Expenditures: An Update

Health Affairs, 1992
An earlier study tracing trends in health spending from 1928 to 1980 found health expenditures concentrated among the top 1 percent of those spending money for health care. In an update to that study, the authors found that that trend toward concentration has increased. In 1987 the tope 1 percent of spenders accounted for 30 percent of health spending,
M L, Berk, A C, Monheit
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Health and the allocation of public expenditures

Health Policy, 1990
In a cross-country study we use a multiple regression in order to estimate the contribution of several factors to life expectancy. We find schooling as the main variable. Medicine also has a significant contribution. Calorie supply has a positive contribution only in the less developed countries.
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Restraining Public Health Expenditure

1997
Health expenditure is undoubtedly one of the main components of public expenditure in Italy. Therefore Italian Government, forced by his huge deficit, is trying to restrain it in different ways. Firstly by seeking to improve its efficiency by making uniform the treatments of similar cases, secondly by introducing a compulsory costs sharing (“tickets ...
G. Goisis, P. Parravicini
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Expenditures for child health care

Pediatrics, 1975
Costs for medical care, new financing schemes, and methods to curtail rising costs have become a paramount concern in many minds in recent years. Most of us, as physicians, find this emphasis somewhat disturbing, for we have operated on the assumption that anything we could do that might result in more good than harm for the individual patient should ...
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Pharmaceutical expenditure, total health‐care expenditure and GDP

Health Economics, 2007
AbstractThis paper analyses the evolution of pharmaceutical expenditure with respect to GDP for a group of the most important OECD economies. We find that this relationship is not stable across the sample considered (1960–2003), and heterogeneity is found in the temporal evolution of the variables and across countries.
Jesús, Clemente, Carmen, Marcuello, Antonio, Montañés   +2 more
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Controlling Health Care Expenditures

New England Journal of Medicine, 2001
After a few years of success in controlling the costs of health care, the United States once again faces the challenge of what, if anything, to do about skyrocketing health care expenditures. Dealing with this challenge, which dominated the health policy agenda from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s, will be extremely difficult under any circumstances.
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