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Health and Society
Research conducted at A. Gani and co-researchers has updated our knowledge about health and society
February 7th, 2009
"This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between per capita public health expenditure and three measures of health outcomes (infant and under-five mortality rates and crude death rates) using cross-country data from seven Pacific Island countries for selected years between 1990 and 2002. The results of the fixed-effects estimation procedure, correcting for AR(1) errors, provide strong evidence that per capita health expenditure is an important factor in determining health outcomes," scientists in Suva, Fiji report. "The elasticity of the infant mortality rate with respect to per capita health expenditure is 0.66. Based on this elasticity, a 10...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-02-07)
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