IMF Working Papers

What Should Macroeconomists Know about Health Care Policy?

By Peter S. Heller

January 1, 2007

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Peter S. Heller What Should Macroeconomists Know about Health Care Policy?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed November 12, 2024
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Summary

This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need to address issues concerning health sector policy, particularly 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 situations in which macroeconomists should engage health sector specialists in policy formulation exercises. Finally, it reviews the different health policy issues that confront countries at alternative stages of economic development and the range of appropriate policy options.

Subject: Health, Health care, Health care spending, Insurance, Tax allowances

Keywords: Expenditure inflation, Health expenditure, Health practitioner, Health sector, Health status, Health system, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    101

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2007/013

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2007013

  • ISBN:

    9781451865776

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941