ArticleHealth services research and managerial epidemiology
Does More Public Health Spending Buy Better Health?
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Heterogenous Effects of Local Government Spending on Mortality Across Racial Groups Among Working-Age Adults in the U.S.AJPM focus · 2023Article
- The analysis of National Health Accounts and financial communications network in Iran health insurance ecosystem.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- What drives variations in public health and social services expenditures? the association between political fragmentation and local expenditure patterns.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2022Article
- Analytic approaches to assess the impact of local spending on sexually transmitted diseases.Health services research · 2022Article
- Estimating Social Variation in the Health Effects of Changes in Health Care Expenditure.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2020Article
- Future Development Through the Past: Pathology of the Financing Dimension of Iran's Health Transformation Plan.ClinicoEconomics and outcomes research : CEOR · 2020Article
- The differential effects of rural health care access on race-specific mortality.SSM - population health · 2017Article
- Value of Public Health Funding in Preventing Hospital Bloodstream Infections in the United States.American journal of public health · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn this article, we attempt to address a persistent question in the health policy literature: Does more public health spending buy better health? This is a difficult question to answer due to unobserved differences in public health across regions as well as the potential for an endogenous relationship between public health spending and public health outcomes.
methodsWe take advantage of the unique way in which public health is funded in Georgia to avoid this endogeneity problem, using a twelve year panel dataset of Georgia county public health expenditures and outcomes in order to address the "unobservables" problem.
resultsWe find that increases in public health spending lead to increases in mortality by several different causes, including early deaths and heart disease deaths. We also find that increases in such spending leads to increases in morbidity from heart disease.
conclusionsOur results suggest that more public health funding may not always lead to improvements in health outcomes at the county level.
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