Impact of macro-fiscal determinants on health financing: empirical evidence from low-and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health financing is a major challenge in low-and middle-income counties (LMICs) for achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Past studies have argued that the budgetary allocation on health financing depends on macro-fiscal policies of an economy such as sustained economic growth and higher revenue mobilization. While the global financial crisis of late 2008 observed a shortage of financial resources in richer countries and adversely affected the health sector. Therefore, this study has examined the impact of macro-fiscal policies on health financing by adopting socioeconomic factors in 85 LMICs for the period 2000 to 2013.

Methods

The study has employed the panel System Generalized Method of Moment model that captures the endogeneity problem in the regression e

SUBMITTER: Behera DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6688340 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature