ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2024
Government Health Expenditure and Maternal Mortality: The Moderating Role of External Debt.
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- Impact of government health expenditure on health outcomes in China: a quantitative analysis of mediation and threshold effects.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Aid cut, lives lost: estimating the impact of USAID's withdrawal on maternal mortality in six African countries.Health policy and planning · 2026Article
- Does public indebtedness matter in the effect of public health expenditure on human longevity in Sub-Saharan Africa countries? Evidence from dynamic panel threshold regression.Health economics review · 2025Article
- Healthcare debts in the United States: a silent fight.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Review
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Abstract
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objectivesThe impact of government health spending and external debt on maternal mortality has been the subject of ongoing theoretical and empirical discussions. However, this relationship has remained controversial with no perspective on the moderating role of external debt on the government's health expenditure and maternal mortality link. This study examines the moderating effect of external debt on the government's health expenditure and maternal mortality relation using data from 13 Southern African economies spanning from 2000 to 2022.
methodsWe employed the augmented mean group, the dynamic common correlation effect mean group, and the Driscoll-Kraay and Granger causality techniques to attain the study's objective.
resultsThe outcome revealed that government health expenditure and external debt reduce maternal mortality in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Equally, the magnitude of government health spending is moderated by external debt. The results revealed a bidirectional relation amidst maternal mortality and government health expenditure, and maternal mortality and external debt.
conclusionsThe study recommends that policymakers within the SADC zone should avoid austerity measures and encourage expansionary measures in terms of spending, and the contraction of debt for capital investment in the health sector. This will enhance the delivery of health services within the zone and equally reduce the rate of maternal mortality that is still a major health concern within the sub-region.
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