The Effect of Public Health Expenditure on Infant Mortality: Evidence from a Panel of Indian States, 1983–1984 to 2011–2012

Barenberg, Andrew; Basu, Deepankar; Soylu, Ceren

doi:10.1080/00220388.2016.1241384

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“…A 1% increase in health expenditure per capita, irrespective of the source, significantly reduced infant and neonatal mortality by approximately 0.1% in the random effect model. This finding is similar to previous studies conducted in Africa and Asia [21,22]. During the same period from 2000 to 2015 the rate of infant mortality in Africa has been substantial decreased, especially in a country such as Botswana, Rwanda, and Ethiopia [33].…”

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“…Other studies have suggested that the effect of public health expenditure is stronger than that of private health expenditure [21]. 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].…”

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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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“…Moreover, the effects of public health expenditure are more than the effects of private health expenditure (20). Barenberg study's in India showed that public health expenditure has a large significant effect on the reduction of infant mortality rate (24) In addition, a study by Arthur and Oaikhenan indicated that the total health expenditure causes a significant effect in reducing infant and under-five mortality rate; this reduction was significantly influenced by public health expenditure because of more investment in mortality reducing technology (25). However, the results of a study conducted by Akinlo and Sulola, with a different time period and model, revealed that public health expenditure has a positive effect on under-five and infant mortality and increase them.…”

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The Effects of Health Expenditure on Health Outcomes Based on the Classification of Public Health Expenditure: A Panel Data Approach

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Background: Health expenditure is among the factors affecting the improvement of a society's health status. Hence, recognizing the effects of public and private health expenditure on health status is vital for making the required decisions. Objectives: This study aimed to compare the effects of different levels of health expenditure on life expectancy, infant mortality rate, and under-five mortality rate as health indicators. Methods: The current study is an analytical research, which was conducted based on a cross-sectional and annual time series data. In this study the effects of private and public health expenditure on health indicators from 2000 to 2015 were investigated. The selected countries had the middle or high-income level and were classified into three groups based on the public health expenditure rate and k-mean method. The required data were collected from the World Bank site and for estimating the model, panel data regression models were used. Results: Public health expenditure had a significant effect on health indicators in all groups, thus, an increase in public health expenditure led to increasing life expectancy and decrease infant and under-five mortality rate in all groups. Also, the group with the highest share of health expenditure had a greater impact on life expectancy and infant mortality, however, in regards to the underfive mortality rate, it was contrary. The effect of private health expenditure was different and in most cases it had no significant effect. Conclusions:The findings of this study indicated that public health expenditure is more effective than the private health expenditure and it also improved health status by creating positive external effects. Therefore, the governments must provide enough required financial resources for improving health status.

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“…Most of the studies in the literature seem to confirm that PHE improves health status. For instance, see Rana, Alam, and Gow () for 161 countries, Ventelou and Abu‐Zaineh () for MENA, Dhrifi (, ) for 93 countries, Linden and Ray () for 34 OECD countries, Kato et al () for Uganda, Asgari and Badpa () for Iran, Barenberg, Basu, and Soylu () for India, Balan () for 25 EU countries, Rahman et al () for 15 countries, Ahmad and Hasan () for Malaysia, Jaba et al () for 175 countries, and Kim and Lane () for 17 OECD countries.…”

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Public health financing, environmental quality, and the quality of life in Nigeria

Nathaniel

Khan

2020

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This study explores the relationship between health financing, environmental quality, and the quality of life in Nigeria. The Bayer and Hanck cointegration test affirms cointegration. Findings further reveal that CO2 emissions have no meaningful impact on life expectancy in the short run. In the long run, urbanization significantly deteriorates the quality of life. Also, public health expenditure has not contributed meaningfully to the quality of life. The study discovers no evidence of a feedback causality, but a one‐way causality flowing from urbanization to CO2 emissions. Policies that can enhance a sustainable environment and improve the quality of life are discussed.

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The Effect of Public Health Expenditure on Infant Mortality: Evidence from a Panel of Indian States, 1983–1984 to 2011–2012

Cited by 67 publications

References 34 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 Effects of Health Expenditure on Health Outcomes Based on the Classification of Public Health Expenditure: A Panel Data Approach

Public health financing, environmental quality, and the quality of life in Nigeria

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