"How Effective is Public Health Expenditure in Improving Overall Health" by Sharmistha Self and Richard Grabowski
 

Title

How Effective is Public Health Expenditure in Improving Overall Health? A Cross-country Analysis

Abstract

The primary emphasis of this paper is on seeking some justification for the worldwide phenomenon of increasing government involvement in health-care. The disability-adjusted-health-expectancy (DALE) rankings of countries in the World Health Report, 2000, ranked wealthier countries, with a typically large public sector involvement in health-care, higher on the list. Contrary to the possible implications for this ranking, this paper finds that the comparatively higher DALE in wealthier countries is not a result of greater public health expenditures. In the middle income and less developed countries, however, there is some evidence of effective public involvement in health-care.

Department(s)

Economics

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/0003684032000056751

Publication Date

2003

Journal Title

Applied Economics

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