Health-care expenditures, economic growth and infant mortality: Evidence from developed and developing countries / Abdelhafidh Dhrifi.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Dhrifi, Abdelhafidh, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic and Social Development.

Local Subjects:

Economic and Social Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (23 pages)

Contained In:

CEPAL Review Vol. 2018, no. 125, p. 69-91 2018:125<69 16840348

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This paper investigates the effects of health-care expenditures on child mortality rates using a simultaneous-equation model for 93 developed and developing countries with data spanning the period 1995-2012. The findings show that health expenditure has a positive effect on reducing child mortality only for upper-middle-income and high-income countries, whereas for low-income and lower-middle-income countries, health spending does not have a significant impact on child health status. It is also found that at lower development levels, public health spending has a greater effect on mortality rates than private expenditure, while at high development levels private health expenditure has a positive impact on child mortality.

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