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Public Expenditures in Health
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Main Principles Establish Market Failures Identify beneficiaries of expenditures Balance potential benefits with ability to deliver services
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Health - Market Failures Public goods (pest control, sanitation, health education) Externalities (infectious disease control) Information advantage of doctors Insurance
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Health - equity concerns Inequities in health status Inequities in benefits of services
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The poor are sicker than other people: Mortality by “wealth”- Brazil, 1996
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Incidence of disease by “wealth” India 1992-3
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Female 45Q15 by cause of death by income group, China 1987
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Health - Problems of Implementation Management challenge –Personnel placement –Quality of services Conscientious providers Maintenance of facilities Political Influence
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Health: Complementarity/ conflict between goals Public goods - strong complementarity Primary health care - modest efficiency effects (varies), potentially high equity effects, difficult management Hospitals - high efficiency, high potential but low actual equity effects, easier management(?)
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In Brazil: the poor have worse sanitation facilities... % with no sanitation facilities
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…they have less access to safe water...
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…and this costs the lives of their children Mortality rate
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Health: Complementarity/ conflict between goals Public goods - strong complementarity Primary health care - modest efficiency effects (varies), potentially high equity effects, difficult management Hospitals - high efficiency, high potential but low actual equity effects, easier management(?)
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Determinants of infant mortality
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Philippines: Effect of public medical care Poor areaNot-so-poor area
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Substitution between public and private providers
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Distribution of health care subsidies, Indonesia
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Health: Complementarity/ conflict between goals Public goods - strong complementarity Primary health care - modest efficiency effects (varies), potentially high equity effects, difficult management Hospitals - high efficiency, high potential but low actual equity effects, easier management(?)
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Value of insurance as a % of expected cost
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Priorities in health policy
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