What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy: A Primer

July 1, 2000

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William C. Hsiao What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy: A Primer, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need in situations where they must address issues concerning health sector policy and when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to any strategy of poverty reduction. The primer highlights the appropriate roles for the state and market in health care financing and provision. It also suggests the situations in which macroeconomists should engage health sector specialists in policy formulation exercises. Finally, it illustrates the different health policy issues that confront countries at alternative stages of economic development and the range of appropriate policy options.

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

Keywords: Expenditure inflation, Global, Good health, Government expenditure, Health care, Health care spending, Health economics, Health expenditure, Health practitioner, Health sector, Health status, Health system, Private sector, Social assistance spending, Tax allowances, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

69
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2000/136
Stock No:

WPIEA1362000
ISBN:

9781451855807
ISSN:

1018-5941

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