The correlation of health spending and infant mortality rate in Asian countries

Shetty, Anil; Shetty, Shraddha K

doi:10.5455/2349-3291.ijcp20140808

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“…Similar findings from a panel of Indian states indicated that public expenditure on healthcare reduces infant mortality [22]. Another study conducted on health spending and infant mortality among Asian countries found that low-income countries which allocate a reasonable proportion of expenditure on health enjoy relatively lower infant mortality [23]. On the other hand, studies conducted among 15 south Asian countries showed that total health expenditure, public health expenditure and private health expenditure has a significant effect in reducing infant mortality rate and the extent of the effect is greater with private health expenditure than public health expenditure [24].…”

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The effects of health expenditure on infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from panel data analysis

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Introduction: Although health expenditure in sub-Saharan African countries is the lowest compared with other regions in the world, most African countries have improved their budget allocations to health care over the past 15 years. The majority of health care sources in sub-Saharan Africa are private and largely involve out-of-pocket expenditure, which may prevent healthcare access. Access to healthcare is a known predictor of infant mortality. Therefore the objective of this study is to determine the impact of health care expenditure on infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Methods: The study used panel data from World Bank Development Indictors (WDI) from 2000 to 2015 covering 46 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The random effects model was selected over the fixed effects model based on the Hausman test to assess the effect of health care expenditure on infant and neonatal mortality. Results: Both public and external health care spending showed a significant negative association with infant and neonatal mortality. However, private health expenditure was not significantly associated with either infant or neonatal mortality. In this study, private expenditure includes funds from households, corporations and non-profit organizations. Public expenditure include domestic revenue as internal transfers and grants, transfers, subsidies to voluntary health insurance beneficiaries, non-profit institutions serving households or enterprise financing schemes as well as compulsory prepayment and social health insurance contributions. External health expenditure is composed of direct foreign transfers and foreign transfers distributed by government encompassing all financial inflows into the national health system from outside the country. Conclusion: Health care expenditure remains a crucial component of reducing infant and neonatal mortality in sub-Saharan African countries. In the region, where health infrastructure is largely underdeveloped, increasing health expenditure will contribute to progress towards reducing infant and neonatal mortality during the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) era. Therefore, governments in the region need to increase amounts allocated to health care service delivery in order to reduce infant mortality.

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The effects of health expenditure on infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from panel data analysis

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“…As a result of the findings from this study, maternal mortality and infant mortality reduces with 7, and 2000-2014 data from 25 countries (21) it was determined that infant mortality reduced with increased public healthcare spending per capita. In the study made with the data from 34 Asian countries, it was determined that the most important indicator of infant mortality was public healthcare spending per capita (22). In the study conducted with 2000 data from 127 member countries of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD (23) and 1999-2010 data from 19 Middle East and South Africa countries (24), similarly, lower rates of infant mortality and maternal mortality were obtained with higher rates of public healthcare spending per capita.…”

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The Impact of Healthcare Spending on Health Outcomes: New Evidence from OECD Countries

Ürek¹

2020

Erciyes Med J

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This study aimed to reveal the impacts of the selected healthcare spending indicators on the selected health outcomes for OECD countries. Materials and Methods: In this study, the data for OECD countries were analyzed by stepwise multiple regression analysis. Healthcare spending as a share of GDP, public and private healthcare spending per capita and pharmaceutical spending per capita were used as independent variables; infant and maternal mortality, male and female life expectancy at birth, and in 80 years, and self-reported health were used as dependent variables. Results: According to the results, it was found out that public healthcare spending per capita has a significant impact on maternal and infant mortality, male and female life expectancy at birth and in 80 years. Also, private healthcare spending per capita was found as an important determinant of self-reported health. Conclusion: Based on the results, it can be suggested that it is necessary to increase the public support for mother-child health services to reduce maternal and infant mortality; and for services for improvement and promotion of health to increase life expectancy at birth and in 80 years. It is considered that improvements in the minimum income levels of individuals and increasing government promotion within the scope of the complementary health insurance offered by the private sector will have a positive impact on the individuals' perception of health status.

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“…Furthermore, Odhiambo (2009) [46] examined 41 SSA countries for a period of 2000-2009 using the dynamic panel and estimation method to explain the impact of public health expenditure in decreasing the rate of infant and underfive mortality. In Asian countries, Shetty and Shetty [47] study established an inverse connection between public health expenditure and infant mortality employing data from 34 Asian countries. Contrarily, Barenberg et al [48] used the panel data to study the impact of GHE on the infant mortality rate of Indian state between 1983-1884 and 2011-2012.…”

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Public Health Expenditure and Under-five Mortality in Nigeria: An Overview for Policy Intervention

Azuh

Osabohien

Orbih

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Open Access Maced J Med Sci

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AIM: This study looked at the contribution of the health expenditure by the government on under-five mortality in Nigeria. METHODS: The autoregressive distribution lag technique was employed in this study in examining the long-run effect of public health expenditure on under-five mortality in Nigeria. Data were sourced from the World Development Indicators for the period 1985–2017. RESULTS: Results from the study showed that though public health expenditure is statistically significant, it showed a positive relationship with the under-five mortality. CONCLUSION: The implication of this result is that 1 unit increase in public health expenditure would improve increase under-five mortality rate by 1.56 units. However, in the Nigerian context, this can be better explained by the lack of proper health-fund coordination and other factors such as maternal education. Therefore, the study concluded by recommending that proper health-fund coordination should be put in place to ensure that budget allocated to the health sector is being spent properly.

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The correlation of health spending and infant mortality rate in Asian countries

Cited by 13 publications

References 19 publications

The effects of health expenditure on infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from panel data analysis

The effects of health expenditure on infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from panel data analysis

The Impact of Healthcare Spending on Health Outcomes: New Evidence from OECD Countries

Public Health Expenditure and Under-five Mortality in Nigeria: An Overview for Policy Intervention

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