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ehsan taheri; Hossein Sadeghi; lotfali agheli; alireza naseri
Abstract
Reduction in the access to health care services and spread of disease can have a negative effects on the economic growth and welfare of the community by reducing the labor force participation. Increasing government health expenditures is one of the ways to overcome these problems. However, implementing ...
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Reduction in the access to health care services and spread of disease can have a negative effects on the economic growth and welfare of the community by reducing the labor force participation. Increasing government health expenditures is one of the ways to overcome these problems. However, implementing this policy, along with its positive effects, will have a negative impact on the effective labor supply of other sectors. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate these effects using a computable general equilibrium model based on the 2011 social accounting matrix of Iran. The results showed that illness, reduced welfare and real GDP, but increasing government health expenditures, increased welfare in the short run and long run. Although effects on real GDP depend on the closure of labor market, so that in the situation of immobile labor force of the health sector, it is decreased, but with full labor mobility, it increased. So because of the positive welfare effects of government health expenditures, it is suggested that government still more invest in this sector. Also to reducing the costs and preventing the real GDP reduction it is necessary to provide the ground to increase labor force in the health sector in such a way as to the labor supply of other activities doesn’t decrease.
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soheila savojipour; abbas assari arani; Lotfali Agheli; ali hasanzadeh
Volume 8, Issue 29 , December 2017, , Pages 97-110
Abstract
This study models healthcare expenditure in household level with the aim of utilizing enough health goods and services in Iran. For this purpose, first suitable econometrics methods for health sector are investigated and then main determinants of households’ healthcare expenditure are introduced ...
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This study models healthcare expenditure in household level with the aim of utilizing enough health goods and services in Iran. For this purpose, first suitable econometrics methods for health sector are investigated and then main determinants of households’ healthcare expenditure are introduced by using the sample selection model. Model estimation has been based on the socio-economic and demographic information of 38513 Iranian households, derived from household’s income- expenditure survey (HIES) in 2011. The results show that the increasing of household's members (children, youth and elderly) and women proportion, to be married of household's head, smoking, having health insurance and living in urban and more development areas encourage households to purchase health goods and services in respective market. On the other hand, household's healthcare expenditure will increase if household consumes more amount of Tobacco, family number, especially the number of elderly members is more and the larger proportion of family members belongs to women. Moreover, households that belong to middle income groups, and who have health insurance and their header is married spend higher expenditure to purchase the health goods and services. This result is true about households which have house; their members are more educated and live in urban areas and provinces where more developed in terms of health facilities.
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Abolfazl Shahabadi; Marzieh Salehi
Volume 7, Issue 26 , February 2017, , Pages 35-48
Abstract
The impact of increased public health spending on economic-social performance of society and especially the importance and its role in providing and ensuring sustainable development in developing and developed countries, has been interest of economists and politicians since past to present. For this ...
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The impact of increased public health spending on economic-social performance of society and especially the importance and its role in providing and ensuring sustainable development in developing and developed countries, has been interest of economists and politicians since past to present. For this purpose, many patterns attempted to identify the factors affecting growth of per capita public health spending and to explain their impact. Due to the vital role of per capita public health spending on economic development, current study using the generalized method of moments (GMM) has paid to investigate improving the management of oil wealth abundance on public health spending in the selected oil and developed countries during the period 1996-2012. The evidences indicate that efficient, intelligent and prospective management of oil resources have important role in increasing per capita public health spending in both groups studied selected oil and developed countries. This represents a serious move for selected oil countries to improve the management of abundance of oil wealth. Furthermore study findings show that per capita GDP growth and consumer price index have a positive and significant impact on growth of public health spending in oil and developed countries. Also results show that income inequality has a negative and significant impact on growth of per capita public health spending in both groups of countries.
