Health expenditure, child and maternal mortality nexus: a comparative global analysis
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Article Title | Health expenditure, child and maternal mortality nexus: a comparative global analysis |
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ERA Journal ID | 13445 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Rana, Rezwanul Hasan (Author), Alam, Khorshed (Author) and Gow, Jeff (Author) |
Journal Title | BMC International Health and Human Rights |
Journal Citation | 18 (1), pp. 1-15 |
Number of Pages | 15 |
Year | 2018 |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 1472-698X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12914-018-0167-1 |
Web Address (URL) | https://bmcinthealthhumrights.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12914-018-0167-1 |
Abstract | Background: This paper provides empirical evidence on how the relationship between health expenditure and health outcomes varies across countries at different income levels. Results: The results indicate that the health expenditure and health outcome link is stronger for low-income compared to high-income countries. Moreover, rising health expenditure can reduce child mortality but has an insignificant relationship with maternal mortality at all income levels. Lower-income countries are more at risk of adverse impact on health because of negative shocks to health expenditure. Variations in child mortality are better explained by rising health expenditure than maternal mortality. However, the estimated results showed dissimilarity when different assumptions and methods were used. Conclusion: The influence of health expenditure on health outcome varies significantly across different income levels except for maternal health. Policymakers should recognize that increasing spending has a minute potential to improve maternal health. Lastly, the results vary significantly due to income level, choice of assumptions (homogeneity, cross-section independence) and estimation techniques used. Therefore, findings of the cross-country panel studies should be interpreted with cautions. |
Keywords | health expenditure, health outcomes, cross-section dependence, heterogeneous panel, impulse response function, variance decomposition, ARDL, FMOLS |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 429999. Other health sciences not elsewhere classified |
380108. Health economics | |
380204. Panel data analysis | |
Byline Affiliations | School of Commerce |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q4w92/health-expenditure-child-and-maternal-mortality-nexus-a-comparative-global-analysis
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