background access to appropriate and affordable healthcare is needed to achieve better health outcomes in africa. however, access to healthcare remains low, especially among the poor. in zambia, poor access exists despite the policy by the government to remove user fees in all primary healthcare facilities in the public sector. the paper has two main objectives: (i) to examine the factors assoc...

This paper analyzes the implications of municipal budget revenue growth and the monetary policy's inflation rates goals in the availability of public health resources of municipalities. This is a descriptive, exploratory, quantitative, retrospective and longitudinal cross-sectional study covering the period 2002-2011. We analyzed health financing and expenditure variables in the municipalities ...

BACKGROUND Previous research has shown that tobacco control funding in California has reduced per capita cigarette consumption and per capita healthcare expenditures. This paper refines our earlier model by estimating the effect of California tobacco control funding on current smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption per smoker and the effect of prevalence and consumption on per capita heal...

A multivariate regression analysis shows that per capita expenditure has a negative effect on fertility, but large changes in per capita expenditure are needed to generate a substantial impact on the expected number of children per woman. Also women’s educational attainment is estimated to decrease fertility, both in rural and urban areas, particularly after schooling reaches the secondary leve...

This paper considers the relative healthcare expenditure needs of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It applies the NHS weighted capitation formula – used to allocate resources to English Primary Care Trusts – to Health Boards in Wales and Scotland and Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland. According to this formula, per capita healthcare expenditure need in Wales is 16%...

A variation of the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) model of Deaton and Muellbauer (1980) has been employed to determine the impacts of per capita total expenditure, food prices and demographic variables on household demand for dairy products in Bangladesh. The budget shares are generally more responsive to per capita total expenditure than to prices. With respect to demographic effects, it is...

The infant mortality rate indicates the health status of a country. Previous studies have proven that socioeconomic factors significant influence on rates in both developed and developing countries. Further are useful for public service strategic policy sector. main purpose this study was to analyze influencing ASEAN based panel data estimates 2000-2017. dependent variable rate, while independe...