Determinants of efficiency in reducing child mortality in developing countries. The role of inequality and government effectiveness
| Autor: | Antonio Casquero, Jesús Sanjuán, Bienvenido Ortega |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Inequality
media_common.quotation_subject Medicine (miscellaneous) Developing country Efficiency Organizational Health administration 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Economic inequality Income distribution 0502 economics and business Economics Humans 030212 general & internal medicine 050207 economics Developing Countries media_common Government Public economics 05 social sciences Infant Newborn Infant Health Status Disparities Child mortality Socioeconomic Factors Child Preschool General Health Professions Child Mortality Income Regression Analysis Female Bureaucracy Health Expenditures |
| Zdroj: | Health care management science. 20(4) |
| ISSN: | 1386-9620 |
| Popis: | The main aim of this article was to analyze the relationship of income inequality and government effectiveness with differences in efficiency in the use of health inputs to improve the under-five survival rate (U5SR) in developing countries. Robust Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and regression analysis were conducted using data for 47 developing countries for the periods 2000-2004, 2005-2009, and 2010-2012. The estimations show that countries with a more equal income distribution and better government effectiveness (i.e. a more competent bureaucracy and good quality public service delivery) may need fewer health inputs to achieve a specific level of the U5SR than other countries with higher inequality and worse government effectiveness. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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