Healthcare expenditure and life expectancy in Cameroon

Nkemgha, Guivis Zeufack; Tekam, Honoré; Belek, Alim

doi:10.1007/s10389-019-01181-2

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“…Our main findings (see Table 5) portray the long-run impact of public and private expenditures, CO 2 emissions, energy consumption, and economic growth on the health status of people in the studied region. The public health expenditure positively and significantly affects the health status, which is consistent with the findings of [16][17][18]22], but not consistent with the outcomes of [20,21]. The effect of private health expenditure on health status is also positive and significant, that complies with the results of [20,22], but does not comply with the findings of [16,17].…”

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“…The public health expenditure positively and significantly affects the health status, which is consistent with the findings of [16][17][18]22], but not consistent with the outcomes of [20,21]. The effect of private health expenditure on health status is also positive and significant, that complies with the results of [20,22], but does not comply with the findings of [16,17]. Both the public and private health expenditures increase health status in the studied region due to the broader health care facilities and the extent of effect is greater for private health in the longrun.…”

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“…revealed that higher public health expenditure lowered the mortality rate in Italy over the period 1999-2013; they applied a pooled cross-sectional time series study. On the other hand, employing ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, [20] identified the positive and statistically significant influence of private health expenditure but no significant impact of public health expenditure on life expectancy in Cameroon during 1980-2014; they also obtained the bidirectional and unidirectional causal links of private and public health expenditure, respectively. Similarly, while conducting a study in 31 European countries for the data period of 2014-2014, [21] found that although public health expenditure is not a key determinant of life expectancy, the social protection expenditures are important factors.…”

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“…The empirical rationale for selecting our variables is mainly on the basis of the data availability, and past and existing literature. We have accessed the data on the variable life expectancy at birth to determine the health status following [11,16,20,46], and others; public and private health expenditures are considered following [7,8,11], and others; energy consumption in the line of [24][25][26][27], among others; the carbon emissions to denote environmental pollution in the line of [8,30,31,35], among others; per capita GDP as a proxy of economic growth following [11,24], and others, and the sanitation facilities following [11,22], among others.…”

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The nexus between health status and health expenditure, energy consumption and environmental pollution: empirical evidence from SAARC-BIMSTEC regions

Rahman

Alam

2021

BMC Public Health

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for the betterment of health status, while also considering health expenditure, energy, and environmental issues. This paper examines the nexus between health status and health expenditure (both public and private), energy consumption and environmental pollution in the SAARC-BIMSTEC region. Methods We utilized the panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, the heterogeneous panel causality test, the cross sectional dependence test, the cointegration test and the Pesaran cross sectional dependent (CADF) unit root test for obtaining estimated results from data over 16 years (2002–2017). Results Our results authorize the cointegration among the variables used, where the coefficients of energy consumption, public and private health expenditures, and economic growth are 0.027, 0.014, 0.030, and 0.029, respectively, and indicating positive and statistically significant effects. The coefficient of environmental pollution is − 0.085, implying significant negative effect on the health status of these regions in the long-run. However, no panel wise significant impact is found in the short-run. Bidirectional and unidirectional causal links between the studied variables and the health status are also identified.. Conclusions The improved health status in the SAARC-BIMSTEC region needs to be protected by articulating the effective policies. The attained results are theoretically and empirically consistent, and have important policy implications in the health sector.

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The nexus between health status and health expenditure, energy consumption and environmental pollution: empirical evidence from SAARC-BIMSTEC regions

Rahman

Alam

2021

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“…Golinelli et al (2017 revealed that higher public health expenditure lowered the infant mortality rate in Italy over the period 1999-2013. On the other hand, Nkemgha et al (2020) identified the positive and statistically significant influence of private health expenditure but no significant impact of public health expenditure on life expectancy in Cameroon during 1980-2014. Similarly, van den Heuvel and Olaroiu (2017) declared that public health expenditure is not a key determinant of life expectancy while conducting a study in 31 European countries for the data period of 2014-2014.…”

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The Nexus Between Health Status and Health Expenditure, Energy Consumption and Environmental Pollution: Empirical Evidence from SAARC-BIMSTEC Regions

Rahman

Alam

2020

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Background: The prevailing COVID-19 pandemic made us deep concern for considering the betterment of health status along with health expenditure, energy, and environmental issues all over the world. This paper examines the nexus between health status and health expenditures (both public and private), energy consumption and environmental pollution in the SAARC-BIMSTEC region.Methodology: We have utilized the panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, heterogeneous panel causality test, cross sectional dependence test, cointegration test and Pesaran cross sectional dependent (CADF) unit root test for obtaining estimated results from the data of 16 years (2002-2017). Results: The acquired results authorize the cointegration among the variables used, where energy consumption, public and private health expenditure and economic growth have positive and statistically significant effects and environmental pollution has both negative and significant effects on the health status of these regions in the long-run, but no panel wise significant impact is found in the short-run. Two-way causal relationships between health status and environmental pollution, public and private health expenditure, economic growth and sanitation facilities, and a one-way causality running from energy consumption to health status are revealed.Conclusions: The improved health status in the SAARC-BIMSTEC region required to be protected by articulating the effective policies on both public and private health expenditures, environmental pollution, energy consumption, and economic growth. The attained results are theoretically and empirically consistent, and have important policy implications in the health sector.JEL codes: I10, I15, I18, C23

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Does health expenditure matter for life expectancy in Mediterranean countries?

Radmehr

Adebayo

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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This research assesses the effect of health expenditure and sanitation on life expectancy in Mediterranean countries. We also consider other drivers of life expectancy, such as CO 2 emissions and economic growth. The study covers the period 2000–2018, and the recently developed method of moments quantile regression (MMQR) approach was utilised to assess these interconnections. This method is immune to outliers and creates an asymmetric interrelationship between variables. The outcomes from the MMQR unveiled that economic growth, health expenditure, and sanitation enhanced life expectancy in all quantiles (0.1–0.90). Furthermore, in all quantiles (0.1–0.90), the effect of CO 2 emissions on life expectancy was negative. Moreover, as a robustness check, the FMOLS, DOLS, and FE-OLS long-run estimators were applied, and the outcomes validated the MMQR outcomes. Based on the results generated, policymakers in these nations should implement effective environmental and public health measures that will pay off in the long run through improved health as a result of lower emissions of CO 2 , as well as increased economic expansion and productivity.

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Healthcare expenditure and life expectancy in Cameroon

Cited by 17 publications

References 22 publications

The nexus between health status and health expenditure, energy consumption and environmental pollution: empirical evidence from SAARC-BIMSTEC regions

The nexus between health status and health expenditure, energy consumption and environmental pollution: empirical evidence from SAARC-BIMSTEC regions

The Nexus Between Health Status and Health Expenditure, Energy Consumption and Environmental Pollution: Empirical Evidence from SAARC-BIMSTEC Regions

Does health expenditure matter for life expectancy in Mediterranean countries?

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