TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining the state level heterogeneity of public health expenditure in India
T2 - an empirical evidence from panel data
AU - Behera, Deepak Kumar
AU - Dash, Umakant
N1 - Funding Information:
Umakant Dash is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. His primary research interests are in the economics of health care and macroeconomics. His research projects pursue questions of equity, efficiency and risk protection in Indian Health System and are funded by the DFID, Rockefeller Foundation and World Bank. He is also involved in collaborative research (through RESYST, CREHS, GHLC) with other partners from
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This study explores the relationship over an extended period of time between an increase in per capita public health expenditure and per capita state’s domestic product (per capita income) of 16 states of India from 1980 to 2014. We consider eight panels of states based on geographical region and levels of economic development for examining the level of heterogeneity in the share of public health expenditure with respect to states’ domestic product by using panel unit root, panel co-integration and panel Granger causality techniques. The empirical result shows that public health expenditure and states’ domestic product are co-integrated in the long-run. The result also shows a positive and significant effect of per capita income in the growth of public health expenditure in the long-run. It finds that there is a bi-directional Granger causality between per capita income and public health expenditure in the short-run while the causality is unidirectional in the long-run. The overall result implies the existence of inequalities in the share of government health expenditure with respect to state’s level of economic development in India. This study would offer effective fiscal policy instruments to minimising geographical inequity of health finance for achieving universal health coverage of Indian states.
AB - This study explores the relationship over an extended period of time between an increase in per capita public health expenditure and per capita state’s domestic product (per capita income) of 16 states of India from 1980 to 2014. We consider eight panels of states based on geographical region and levels of economic development for examining the level of heterogeneity in the share of public health expenditure with respect to states’ domestic product by using panel unit root, panel co-integration and panel Granger causality techniques. The empirical result shows that public health expenditure and states’ domestic product are co-integrated in the long-run. The result also shows a positive and significant effect of per capita income in the growth of public health expenditure in the long-run. It finds that there is a bi-directional Granger causality between per capita income and public health expenditure in the short-run while the causality is unidirectional in the long-run. The overall result implies the existence of inequalities in the share of government health expenditure with respect to state’s level of economic development in India. This study would offer effective fiscal policy instruments to minimising geographical inequity of health finance for achieving universal health coverage of Indian states.
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U2 - 10.1504/IJHTM.2018.091851
DO - 10.1504/IJHTM.2018.091851
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047600782
SN - 1368-2156
VL - 17
SP - 75
EP - 95
JO - International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management
JF - International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management
IS - 1
ER -
