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Public spending on health care and the poor
Author(s) -
Gupta Sanjeev,
Verhoeven Marijn,
Tiongson Erwin R.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
health economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.55
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1099-1050
pISSN - 1057-9230
DOI - 10.1002/hec.759
Subject(s) - public health , health care , public spending , health spending , public health care , social determinants of health , socioeconomic status , public economics , environmental health , demographic economics , economics , economic growth , socioeconomics , health policy , medicine , political science , population , health insurance , nursing , politics , law
Abstract This paper uses new cross‐country data to assess the relationship between public spending on health care and the health status of the poor. Data are drawn from two sources: (i) existing data on health status by income quintile tabulated from demographic health surveys in 44 countries; and (ii) our estimates of the health status of the poor in over 70 countries drawn from a new technique in decomposing social indicators. Our estimates confirm that the poor have significantly worse health status than the nonpoor and the regression results provide new evidence that public spending on health care matters more to them. However, the results suggest that increased public spending alone will not be sufficient to significantly improve health status. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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