The Incidence of Public Spending on Healthcare

The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across 11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcare concentration curves against an equal distribution and Lorenz curves and across countries. The analysis reveals that the distribution of public healthcare is prorich i...

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Main Authors:	O’Donnell, Owen, van Doorslaer, Eddy, Rannan-Eliya, Ravi P., Somanathan, Aparnaa, Adhikari, Shiva Raj, Harbianto, Deni, Garg, Charu C., Hanvoravongchai, Piya, Huq, Mohammed N., Karan, Anup, Leung, Gabriel M., Ng, Chiu Wan, Pande, Badri Raj, Tin, Keith, Tisayaticom, Kanjana, Trisnantoro, Laksono, Zhang, Yuhui, Zhao, Yuxin
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	antenatal care clinics Health Policy health services hospitals medicines Morbidity outpatient care patients Public Health
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4448

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spelling	okr-10986-44482021-04-23T14:02:17Z The Incidence of Public Spending on Healthcare O’Donnell, Owen van Doorslaer, Eddy Rannan-Eliya, Ravi P. Somanathan, Aparnaa Adhikari, Shiva Raj Harbianto, Deni Garg, Charu C. Hanvoravongchai, Piya Huq, Mohammed N. Karan, Anup Leung, Gabriel M. Ng, Chiu Wan Pande, Badri Raj Tin, Keith Tisayaticom, Kanjana Trisnantoro, Laksono Zhang, Yuhui Zhao, Yuxin antenatal care clinics Health Policy health services hospitals medicines Morbidity outpatient care patients Public Health The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across 11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcare concentration curves against an equal distribution and Lorenz curves and across countries. The analysis reveals that the distribution of public healthcare is prorich in most developing countries. That distribution is avoidable, but a propoor incidence is easier to realize at higher national incomes. The experiences of Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand suggest that increasing the incidence of propoor healthcare requires limiting the use of user fees, or protecting the poor Effectively from them, and building a wide network of health facilities. Economic growth may not only relax the government budget constraint on propoor policies but also increase propoor incidence indirectly by raising richer individuals’ demand for private sector alternatives. 2012-03-30T07:12:35Z 2012-03-30T07:12:35Z 2007-01-30 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4448 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank Journal Article Asia South Asia China Sri Lanka India Indonesia
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description	The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across 11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcare concentration curves against an equal distribution and Lorenz curves and across countries. The analysis reveals that the distribution of public healthcare is prorich in most developing countries. That distribution is avoidable, but a propoor incidence is easier to realize at higher national incomes. The experiences of Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand suggest that increasing the incidence of propoor healthcare requires limiting the use of user fees, or protecting the poor Effectively from them, and building a wide network of health facilities. Economic growth may not only relax the government budget constraint on propoor policies but also increase propoor incidence indirectly by raising richer individuals’ demand for private sector alternatives.
format	Journal Article
author	O’Donnell, Owen van Doorslaer, Eddy Rannan-Eliya, Ravi P. Somanathan, Aparnaa Adhikari, Shiva Raj Harbianto, Deni Garg, Charu C. Hanvoravongchai, Piya Huq, Mohammed N. Karan, Anup Leung, Gabriel M. Ng, Chiu Wan Pande, Badri Raj Tin, Keith Tisayaticom, Kanjana Trisnantoro, Laksono Zhang, Yuhui Zhao, Yuxin
author_facet	O’Donnell, Owen van Doorslaer, Eddy Rannan-Eliya, Ravi P. Somanathan, Aparnaa Adhikari, Shiva Raj Harbianto, Deni Garg, Charu C. Hanvoravongchai, Piya Huq, Mohammed N. Karan, Anup Leung, Gabriel M. Ng, Chiu Wan Pande, Badri Raj Tin, Keith Tisayaticom, Kanjana Trisnantoro, Laksono Zhang, Yuhui Zhao, Yuxin
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title	The Incidence of Public Spending on Healthcare
title_short	The Incidence of Public Spending on Healthcare
title_full	The Incidence of Public Spending on Healthcare
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title_full_unstemmed	The Incidence of Public Spending on Healthcare
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The Incidence of Public Spending on Healthcare

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