What Macroeconomists Should Know about Health Care Policy

April 27, 2007

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Peter S. Heller, and William C. Hsiao What Macroeconomists Should Know about Health Care Policy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This primer explains why macroeconomists need to be concerned with issues of health policy and elaborates the essential information that a macroeconomist should know in providing inputs to discussions on health sector policy. The primer illustrates how these issues and the range of appropriate policy options may differ depending on the state of development of an economy and the particular approach taken by a country in structuring its health system. The primer also highlights the appropriate roles for the state and market in health care financing and provision, taking account of the various sources of market failure in the health sector.

Subject: Expenditure, Health, Health care, Health care spending, Social assistance spending, Tax allowances, Taxes

Keywords: Africa, Expenditure, Global, Health care, Health care spending, Health expenditure inflation, Health sector, Health status, Health system, IMF economist, ISI, Macroeconomist, SI, Social assistance spending, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tax allowances

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ISIEA2007001
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