Government health expenditures and health outcome nexus: a study on OECD countries
IntroductionThe consistent increase in health expenditures is an integral part of health policy. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of health expenditures on health outcomes in the OECD countries.MethodWe used the system generalized method of moments (GMM) for thirty eight OECD coun...
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| description | IntroductionThe consistent increase in health expenditures is an integral part of health policy. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of health expenditures on health outcomes in the OECD countries.MethodWe used the system generalized method of moments (GMM) for thirty eight OECD countries using panel data from 1996 to 2020.Results and discussionThe findings show that health expenditures have a negative impact on infant mortality while positive on life expectancy. The results further verify that the income measured as GDP, number of doctors, and air pollution has a negative effect on infant mortality, while these variables have a positive effect on life expectancy in the studied countries. The outcome of the study suggests that health expenditures need to be properly utilized and improvements can be made in the health policies to increase the investment in health technology. The government should also focus on measures like economic and environmental to have long-lasting health outcomes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-54f0b3b0add54e2aab772ef6bece404d2023-04-17T05:58:47ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652023-04-011110.3389/fpubh.2023.11237591123759Government health expenditures and health outcome nexus: a study on OECD countriesAsim Anwar0Shabir Hyder1Norashidah Mohamed Nor2Mustafa Younis3Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Attock, PakistanDepartment of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Attock, PakistanSchool of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Health Policy and Management, School of Health Sciences, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, United StatesIntroductionThe consistent increase in health expenditures is an integral part of health policy. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of health expenditures on health outcomes in the OECD countries.MethodWe used the system generalized method of moments (GMM) for thirty eight OECD countries using panel data from 1996 to 2020.Results and discussionThe findings show that health expenditures have a negative impact on infant mortality while positive on life expectancy. The results further verify that the income measured as GDP, number of doctors, and air pollution has a negative effect on infant mortality, while these variables have a positive effect on life expectancy in the studied countries. The outcome of the study suggests that health expenditures need to be properly utilized and improvements can be made in the health policies to increase the investment in health technology. The government should also focus on measures like economic and environmental to have long-lasting health outcomes.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1123759/fullhealth expendituresinfant mortalitylife expectancyair pollutionincomeOECD countries |
| spellingShingle | Asim Anwar Shabir Hyder Norashidah Mohamed Nor Mustafa Younis Government health expenditures and health outcome nexus: a study on OECD countries Frontiers in Public Health health expenditures infant mortality life expectancy air pollution income OECD countries |
| title | Government health expenditures and health outcome nexus: a study on OECD countries |
| title_full | Government health expenditures and health outcome nexus: a study on OECD countries |
| title_fullStr | Government health expenditures and health outcome nexus: a study on OECD countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Government health expenditures and health outcome nexus: a study on OECD countries |
| title_short | Government health expenditures and health outcome nexus: a study on OECD countries |
| title_sort | government health expenditures and health outcome nexus a study on oecd countries |
| topic | health expenditures infant mortality life expectancy air pollution income OECD countries |
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