New Considerations on Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Canadian Provincial Government Health Expenditures, 1966-1998

Author(s):  
Ruolz Ariste ◽  
Jeff Carr
PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. e71474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Pan ◽  
Peng Wang ◽  
Xuezheng Qin ◽  
Shufang Zhang

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. e0154563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidan Wang ◽  
Anjue Wang ◽  
Detong Zhou ◽  
Gerry FitzGerald ◽  
Dongqing Ye ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
Panan Danladi Gwaison ◽  
Livinus Nkuri Maimako

Health is a very important aspect of an individual’s wellbeing, and since individuals make a nation, therefore, healthcare expenditure could be regarded as one of the necessary conditions to achieving a sustainable long-term economic development. This study examined the effects of government health expenditures on the performance of health Sector in Nigeria. The study employed expo facto research design. The annual time series data from 1979 to 2017 was used in this study from Statistical Bulletin of the Central Bank of Nigeria and World Development Indicators, 2018. The pre estimation test like the descriptive statistics, Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) unit root test Johensen cointegration test and Error correction model test. The OLS estimation technique was used to determine the coefficient of the variables and test the four hypothesis. The results indicated that government total health expenditures, capital health expenditure and recurrent health expenditures are positively related to the performance of health sector proxy by life expectancy rate and statistically insignificant. However capital health expenditure was statistically significant to life expectancy. The study recommends that more emphasis should be placed on the capital expenditures on health as this will facilitate rapid development of the sector and adequate Machinery should be put in place by all sectors of government to arrest corruption and penalize those who divert and embezzle public health fund among other recommendations were made.


2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-97
Author(s):  
Ramin Ravangrad ◽  
Rouhollah Shahnazi ◽  
Fereshteh Karimi ◽  
Abdosaleh Jafari ◽  
Nasrin Shokrpour

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