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What is Total Health Expenditure

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Handbook of Research on Military Expenditure on Economic and Political Resources
Total health expenditure is the sum of public and private health expenditure. It covers the provision of health services (preventive and curative), family planning activities, nutrition activities, and emergency aid designated for health but does not include provision of water and sanitation.
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Defense Expenditure and Its Impact on Health in the SAARC Countries
Maniklal Adhikary (The University of Burdwan, India) and Melisha Khatun (Aliah University Kolkata, India)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 37
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4778-5.ch018
Abstract
Resources are scarce, but needs are unlimited. Therefore, the rational attempt must be designed in order to allocate optimally the limited resources to satisfy as maximum as possible our dire needs of life. This chapter attempts to examine the impact of military expenditure (percentage of GDP) on health issues of five selected SAARC countries by employing the panel data model from the period 1995 to 2015. The authors have found that as military expenditure increased, total health expenditure (percentage of GDP), public health expenditure (percentage of GDP), and private health expenditure (percentage of GDP) decreased. The present study has also witnessed an inverse relation between population growth and health expenditure. Military expenditure adversely affected the two health indicators, namely life expectancy at birth and infant mortality rate.
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