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ArticleFrontiers in public health2021

Measuring the Impact of Health on Economic Growth Using Pooling Data in Regions of Asia: Evidence From a Quantile-On-Quantile Analysis.

Cheng-Feng Wu, Tsangyao Chang, Chien-Ming Wang, Tsung-Pao Wu, Meng-Chen Lin, Shian-Chang Huang

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Cheng-Feng WuSchool of Business Administration, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan, China.
Tsangyao ChangDepartment of Finance, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Chien-Ming WangDepartment of International Business, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Tsung-Pao WuSchool of Accounting and Finance, Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai, China.
Meng-Chen LinSchool of Business Administration, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan, China.
Shian-Chang HuangDepartment of Business Administration, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan.

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Abstract

Health improvement has become a significant social priority since a moderately good human capital condition improves the workforce's abilities, efficiency, and quality of life. A rapid increase in healthcare expenditure is a trend in major developing and developed countries; however, healthcare expenditure widely varies among most Asian countries. Asian countries contribute a significant amount of output to economic development worldwide. The statistical test power is more efficient for the pooling of national data than individual national data because of the economic value and trade integration of regional nations. This is the first study that applies the quantile-on-quantile approach to investigate the influence of the quantiles of healthcare on the quantiles of the economy's growth for pooling forty countries in the Asian region. As the quantile of healthcare expenditure increases in the countries, the impact of healthcare expenditure on the economy's growth does not guarantee an increase. The positive and negative effects of healthcare expenditure on developing the economic relationship will repeatedly occur when the quantiles of the economy's growth increase in the countries. One implication is that the governments should account for problems such as corruption, bureaucracy, underinvestment, and inefficiency in health-related resource utilization.

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Economic DevelopmentQuality of LifeAsiaHealth ExpendituresHumansAsiaeconomic growthhealthpooling dataquantile-on-quantile

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