ArticleHealth economics review2017
Is health care a necessary or luxury product for Asian countries? An answer using panel approach.
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- The relationship between health insurance and economic performance: an empirical study based on meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
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- The impact of food insecurity on health outcomes: empirical evidence from sub-Saharan African countries.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Resiliency of healthcare expenditure to income shock: Evidence from dynamic heterogeneous panels.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Drivers of respiratory health care demand in Acre state, Brazilian Amazon: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2022Review
- On the Network Transmission Mechanisms of Disease-Specific Healthcare Expenditure Spillovers: Evidence from the Connectedness Network Analyses.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Relationship Between "Protect People's Livelihood" and "Promote the Economy:" Provincial Evidence From China.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Is health care a luxury or necessity good? Evidence from Asian countries.International journal of health economics and management · 2019Article
- Nonlinear Granger Causality between Health Care Expenditure and Economic Growth in the OECD and Major Developing Countries.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
A number of studies have estimated the income elasticity of health care expenditure to identify whether health care is a necessary or luxury product. However, the issue has received less attention in developing countries, especially in Asian economies. The current study for the first time has used the panel data covering 36 Asian countries for the period 1995-2013 for revealing the nature of health care as a product. Along with conventional econometric techniques we have addressed the issue of cross section dependence and used Westerlund (2007) panel cointegration test which is robust against cross section dependence and heterogeneity for detecting the presence of panel cointegration. By applying Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS) and Dynamic OLS (DOLS) it was found that the long run elasticity of Health Care Expenditure (HCE) with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is less than unit implying that the health care can be regarded as necessary in nature for these countries.
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