Effects of Air Pollution on Public and Private Health Expenditures in Iran: A Time Series Study (1972-2014) [PDF]
Objectives Environmental pollution is a negative consequence of the development process, and many countries are grappling with this phenomenon.
Pouran Raeissi +5 more
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Decomposed Trends of Iranian Private Health Expenditures: Should Inequality be Appreciated? [PDF]
Background: Inequalities in health and health care have drawn considerable attention in social determinants of health literature. This study aims to calculate the inequality of out-of-pocket health payments (OPHP) for Iranian households during the period 1984 to 2019 and provide decomposed inequality for households with different socioeconomic status ...
Aghapour E +3 more
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Private health expenditures and environmental quality
Abstract This paper presents a simple two-period overlapping generations model that contains environmental and health issues. It investigates an intergenerational conflict between old and young generations as regards two defensive expenditures offsetting the influence of a worsening environment represented here by health care and ...
Fatma Safi, Lobna Ben Hassen
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Do CO2 emissions, per capita GDP, public and private health expenditures matter for the health of older adults: empirical evidence from the E7 countries [PDF]
BackgroundImprovements in life expectancy, along with decreases in fertility rates, have caused population aging in many countries. However, the environmental, economic, and social determinants of older adults’ health have not been sufficiently ...
Muhammet Ali Köroğlu +4 more
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Endogenous Fertility in a Growth Model with Public and Private Health Expenditures [PDF]
We build an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility choices as well as public and private expenditures on health. We find that the complementary effect of public health services on private health expenditures can provide an additional ...
Dimitrios Varvarigos +1 more
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Comparative study of care expenditures for private and public health [PDF]
Introduction: Health is one of the most important factors of human capital. Health affects labor supply both qualitatively (higher productivity) and quantitatively (not missing working days due to illness).
Samira Motaghi +2 more
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Determinants of healthcare expenditures: evidence from Türkiye’s healthcare system [PDF]
BackgroundThe lack of a mandatory referral system for service demand in Türkiye’s health system and the belief that unnecessary health expenditures are increasing constitute the basis of this study.
Hülya Diğer +3 more
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Aging, Private Health Expenditures and Environment Quality
This paper presents a simple two-period overlapping generation's model with uncertain lifetimes that contains environmental and health issues. It investigates an intergenerational conflict between old and young generations as regards two defensive expenditures, offsetting the influence of a worsening environment, represented here by health care and ...
Fatma Safi
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The Impact of Public and Private Health Expenditures on Poverty in developing countries [PDF]
Background & Objectives: Changes in twenty-first century and incidence of development gap among countries has caused particular attention of all economic schools to the problem of poverty and the factors affecting it, as a consequence of underdevelopment.
Javad Harati +3 more
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Public and private health expenditure and life expectancy in Iran
Objective (s): One of the factors affecting life expectancy is health expenditure. Considering the different effects and outcomes of private and public health expenditures on health in Iran, the aim of this study was to investigate the causality between ...
Mahdi Shahraki
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