Healthcare expenditure and health outcome nexus: Exploring the evidences from Oman

Al-Azri, Mohammed; Al-Mamari, Fetima; Mondal, Swadhin

doi:10.1002/pa.2329

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“…on that there is a strong, positive association between total healthcare expenditures and total life expectancy in selected East African Countries, Dhrif 3 on that healthcare expenditure reduces child mortality rates in 93 developed and developing countries, Rahman et al 8 . on that healthcare expenditure is tackling infant mortality in the ASEAN, Ray and Linden 23 on that public health expenditures are generally more health‐promoting than private expenditures in 195 countries, Al‐Azri et al 24 . on that healthcare expenditure has an effect on healthcare outcomes by lowering infant mortality rates, child mortality rates, and maternal mortality rates in the Arab Gulf region, Bein and Coker‐Farrell 25 on that healthcare expenditure has an impact on health status, with public healthcare expenditure having a greater impact than private healthcare expenditure in eight African countries, and Haque et al 26 .…”

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“…Secondary education, on the other hand, does not provide the same health benefits as primary education. Al-Azri et al 24 examine the impact of public healthcare expenditure on healthcare outcomes in the Arab Gulf region over a 20-year period using fixed and random effects models. The findings show that healthcare expenditure has an impact on healthcare outcomes by reducing infant, child, and maternal mortality rates; however, it has no effect on non-communicable disease deaths.…”

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“…Secondary education, on the other hand, does not provide the same health benefits as primary education. Al‐Azri et al 24 . examine the impact of public healthcare expenditure on healthcare outcomes in the Arab Gulf region over a 20‐year period using fixed and random effects models.…”

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Ramification of healthcare expenditure on morbidity rates and life expectancy in the association of southeast asian nations countries: A dynamic panel threshold analysis

Abbasi

Ali

2022

Health Planning & Management

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Objective This study has investigated the impact of healthcare expenditure on life expectancy and morbidity rates in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to analyse whether health expenditure remains a critical component of improving health status and to determine the threshold value at which health strategy becomes cost‐effective from 2000 to 2019. Methods The techniques employed include the Dynamic Panel Threshold model advanced by Seo et al. (2019) to implement Seo and Shin's (2016) proposed first‐differenced generalised method of moments (GMM) estimation. Furthermore, the dynamic system GMM and Pooled Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) techniques were also employed for robustness check. Results The findings revealed that healthcare expenditure raises life expectancy and lowers the crude death rate, infant mortality rate, and maternal mortality rate. Therefore, healthcare expenditure is increasing life expectancy and reducing crude death rate, infant mortality rate, and maternal mortality rate. However, when disaggregating the impact, that of public healthcare expenditure is higher than that of private except in the case of infant mortality rate where that of private is higher. In addition, it found that the threshold value at which health strategy becomes cost‐effective, thus the amount which the countries should spend for health status improvement is at least 6% and above of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Conclusion Healthcare expenditure is raising life expectancy and lowering the morbidity rate of the countries. Furthermore, the cost‐effective level of the country's healthcare expenditure as a proportion of GDP is 6% and above.

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Ramification of healthcare expenditure on morbidity rates and life expectancy in the association of southeast asian nations countries: A dynamic panel threshold analysis

Abbasi

Ali

2022

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“…The findings revealed that public health spending is typically more health-promoting than private spending. Al-Azri et al (2020) assessed the effect of public healthcare expenditure on health outcomes in Oman using country-level data from the World Bank. The authors found that increasing health expenditure significantly reduces infant mortality rate, child mortality rate and maternal mortality rate.…”

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“…The findings revealed that public health spending is typically more health-promoting than private spending. Al-Azri et al. (2020) assessed the effect of public healthcare expenditure on health outcomes in Oman using country-level data from the World Bank.…”

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The effect of health expenditure on average life expectancy: does government effectiveness play a moderating role?

Bunyaminu

Mohammed²,

Yakubu³

et al. 2022

IJHG

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PurposeThis study investigates the impact of total health expenditure on life expectancy in a panel of 43 African countries from 2000 to 2018.Design/methodology/approachThe dynamic panel generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation method developed by Arellano and Bond (1991) is used in this study. This approach generates estimates that are heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent, as well as controls for unobserved time-invariant country-specific effects and eliminates any endogeneity in the panel model.FindingsThe results reveal that health expenditure on its own has a positive significant influence on life expectancy. However, health expenditure via the moderating effect of government effectiveness reduces life expectancy. The authors also observe that school enrollment and the level of economic activity significantly drive life expectancy.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is limited to 43 out of 54 African countries, and it covers a period of 18 years: 2000 to 2018.Practical implicationsThe authors argue that larger health expenditure will aid in improving the life expectancy rate in Africa. However, in practice, this would be difficult given the needs of other priority sectors.Social implicationsSince most developing countries' health expenditures are small, a policy option is that healthcare services should be subsidized such that the poorest people can also access them.Originality/valueThe study differs from the previous attempts, and with this, the authors contribute significantly to the literature. First, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the authors are unaware of any study considering the role of government effectiveness as a moderating factor in investigating the effect of health expenditure on life expectancy in the African context. Thus, the authors fill a yawning gap in the literature. Second, the authors employ a recent dataset with larger sample size. Finally, to address the problem of endogeneity and simultaneity bias, the authors use the system GMM technique.

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Factors affecting the incidence of health insurance penetration among elderly: Evidence from India

Chatterjee

Nayak

Mahakud

2022

Journal of Public Affairs

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A thrust on insurance-financed health systems may reduce Out-of-pocket health spending. But health insurance penetration among Indian elderly is abysmally low. In this context, the paper intends to examine the factors affecting demand for various types of insurances among Indian elderly. Data were drawn from 71st round (2014-15) "Key Consumption: Health" household survey data collected by National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO), Government of India. A total number of 27,245 older adults were selected for this study. In addition to basic descriptive statistics, we employ logistic regression models to conduct the econometric analysis. Socioeconomic, health-related and contextual predictors are considered in this study. The results show that the probability of health insurance coverage among elderly significantly depends on income, education, disease types, caste, family size, and most importantly, social relationships. The underprivileged groups have higher likelihood to be covered by government-funded insurance, while the older people with higher income and education, having spouses and less number of children, and residing in urban areas have a higher likelihood of purchasing private health insurance. The study identified the factors responsible for low demand for health insurance among elderly. The study suggests the expansion of private insurance network, especially, in the underserved rural areas, along with generating financial awareness among the elderly. The study also suggests an inclusive model of health insurance demand, which may be adopted by future empirical studies to find out the significant factors affecting health insurance demand.

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Healthcare expenditure and health outcome nexus: Exploring the evidences from Oman

Cited by 17 publications

References 22 publications

Ramification of healthcare expenditure on morbidity rates and life expectancy in the association of southeast asian nations countries: A dynamic panel threshold analysis

Ramification of healthcare expenditure on morbidity rates and life expectancy in the association of southeast asian nations countries: A dynamic panel threshold analysis

The effect of health expenditure on average life expectancy: does government effectiveness play a moderating role?

Factors affecting the incidence of health insurance penetration among elderly: Evidence from India

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