Health Financing Mechanisms, Access to Health and Economic Growth

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The paper analyzes the comparative effects of alternative health financing mechanisms on economic growth within a two-sector model with human capital. The transitional growth effects of a social insurance system are stronger than those of an out-of-pocket payment system. A private health insurance system ranks 'in between'. If physical capital relative to health is abundant, investments in health have stronger growth effects, which points to the relevance of health investments in particular for developing countries. The relative advantage of a health financing system in the long run depends on the relative amount of investment in health within each system.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-3-927276-78-9
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IEE Working Papers ; No. 192

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity ; Health and Economic Development ; National Government Expenditures and Health ; Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
• Thema: Economic growth ; Health ; Health financing ; Human capital ; Social insurance ; Gesundheitsfinanzierung ; Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Entwicklungstheorie ; Mehrsektoren-Modell ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bender, Katja
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Institut für Entwicklungsforschung und Entwicklungspolitik (IEE)
• (wo): Bochum
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/183546
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ