-developed countries (LDCs) have had to cut back social spending, including spending on government health programs. As a result, these … countries have been forced to explore alternative means fo financing health services, including greater recovery of costs in the … government health sector via user fees. …

Since May 2009 the first National Health Accounts (NHA) for Pakistan have been finalised and published by Federal … and analyses in more detail the regional differences in health expenditure structures in Pakistan. The further analyses … can be divided into four parts: health expenditures in provinces (Provincial Health Accounts, PHA),2 Punjab provincial and …

policy on education and health. The study employs panel dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) estimation technique and covers …. When augmented with effective fiscal policy on health foreign aid enhances households' income in West and Central Africa … (health) reduces poverty head- count in the West and Central (in all regions except Central) regions of Africa. The study …

goods and services (indirect taxes) and health outcomes, which they hypothesise arises from the impact such taxes have on … the real incomes of the poor. This paper revisits the relationship between tax types and health outcomes using the ICTD … revenue are associated with increased public health expenditure; we find some weak evidence that greater reliance on direct …

goods and services (indirect taxes) and health outcomes, which they hypothesise arises from the impact such taxes have on … the real incomes of the poor. This paper revisits the relationship between tax types and health outcomes using the ICTD … revenue are associated with increased public health expenditure; we find some weak evidence that greater reliance on direct …

malaria prevents parents to invest in child health. Building upon the seminal paper of Dowetal. (1999), we develop a simple … model of health investments under competing mortality risks, in which people allocate expenses to equalize lifetime across … all causes of death. We predict that private health investments to fight malaria as well as other diseases should increase …

This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax … federal EITC expansion on several outcomes related to mental health and subjective well-being. The identification strategy … suggest that the 1990 EITC reform generated sizeable health benefits for low-skilled mothers. Such women experienced lower …

In times of epidemics and pandemics, depletion or diversion of health system resources from routine health care is … common, posing serious threats to primary care. This paper estimates the contemporaneous and long-run effects of health … general method of moments frameworks. We also provide evidence that indicates how health system, macroeconomic, institutional …

This study examines whether Jamaica's free public healthcare policy affected health status and labor supply of adult … individuals. It compares outcomes of adults without health insurance versus their insured counterparts, before and after policy …