From Slippery Slopes to Steep Hills: Contrasting Landscapes of Economic Growth and Public Spending for Health
| Autor: | Iryna Postolovska, Adrien Dozol, Jewelwayne S. Cain, Christoph Kurowski, Ajay Tandon |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Financing
Government Health (social science) Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Public expenditure Sample (statistics) Public Expenditure Article 03 medical and health sciences Public spending 0302 clinical medicine History and Philosophy of Science Universal Health Insurance Economic Growth Development economics Per capita Economics Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Health care financing Government 030503 health policy & services Income Economic Development Health Expenditures 0305 other medical science Health Care Financing National Government Health Expenditure |
| Zdroj: | Social Science & Medicine (1982) |
| ISSN: | 1873-5347 0277-9536 2000-2017 |
| Popis: | Identifying ways to increase public spending on health is critical for the achievement of universal health coverage. While policymakers and donors often look at available options for increasing public spending for health in the medium-term, examining trends and drivers of past growth can help countries elucidate important lessons and to anticipate changes in the future. This note analyzes trends in inflation-adjusted per capita public spending for health vis-à-vis economic growth within and across a sample of 150 countries over the 2000-2017 period. Since 2000, per capita public spending for health across low- and middle-income countries has more than doubled. Less than one-fifth of this increase, however, resulted from a higher priority for health in government budgets. The remainder was largely due to conducive macroeconomic conditions such as economic growth and increases in total public spending. Furthermore, across most countries, a single time trend does not adequately capture the evolution either of economic growth or of per capita public spending on health. Instability in growth rates is large for both indicators, revealing distinct episodic patterns. Highlights • Public spending on health growth largely due to conducive macroeconomic conditions • Reprioritization for increasing public spending for health has been marginal • Counter-cyclical policies essential for public financing during economic downturns • Single time trend not adequate to capture evolution of public spending on health |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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