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Williams, Alan; Cookson, Richard - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1863-1910). 2000

Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a person may expect to enjoy over his or her lifetime....

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The economic case for devoting public resources to health

Bloom, David E.; Fink, Guenther - 2013

The world has enjoyed huge improvements in population health during the last half century. But major health problems persist, particularly in tropical countries, which are still struggling with infectious diseases while increasingly having to deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic...

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Public spending on health as political instrument? : regime-type dependency of public spending

Münch, Angela; Fielding, David; Freytag, Andreas - In: Open economics 3 (2020) 1, pp. 121-134

The paper argues that the level of public spending on health varies according to the type of political regime in a country. A simple political economic model is employed to analyse the rationale of policy makers when implementing healthcare policy. The theory of dictatorship as described by...

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Age, Health and Medical Expenditure

Jackson, William A. - 2021

Ageing populations in developed countries have placed increasing demands on health care services and drawn attention to how age is related to medical expenditure. The effect of ageing on health involves a mixture of biological and social factors that ideally requires an interdisciplinary...

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Public health expenditures and health outcomes : new evidence from Ghana

Boachie, Micheal Kofi; Ramu, K.; Põlajeva, Tatjana - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 4/58, pp. 1-25

The effect of government spending on population’s health has received attention over the past decades. This study re-examines the link between government health expenditures and health outcomes to establish whether government intervention in the health sector improves outcomes. The study uses...

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Cognitive development and infectious disease : gender differences in investments and outcomes

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - 2013

a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …

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State-Level Healthcare Spending and Health Outcomes : An Application of Spatial Durbin Panel Approach to Mortality

Bose, Srimoyee - 2015

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Family expenditures on healthcare services : an analysis of the impact of gender, health status, home healthcare, socioeconomic status, and race on family healthcare expenditures u...

Allen, Ralph C.; Stone, Jack Herbert - In: The southern business & economic journal 29 (2006) 3/4, pp. 50-61

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Women in cabinet and public health spending : evidence across countries

Mavisakalyan, Astghik - In: Economics of governance 15 (2014) 3, pp. 281-304

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A double-hurdle model of healthcare expenditures across income quintiles and family size : new insights from a household survey

Osmani, Ahmad Reshad; Okunade, Albert - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-21

The decision-making processes and outcomes of male and female household heads differ due to gender-based differences in … studies modeling healthcare expenditures using household survey data used a gender dummy variable in regression models to … control for household gender headship at the household level. Due to the endogeneity and self-selection bias in the past …

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