Reports Summarize Healthcare Economics Findings from A. Bhattacharjee and Co-Authors (Healthcare investment and income inequality)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Investigators publish new report on Health and Medicine - Healthcare Economics. According to news reporting out of Haryana, India, by NewsRx editors, research stated, "This paper examines how the relative shares of public and private health expenditures impact income inequality. We study a two period overlapping generation's growth model in which longevity is determined by both private and public health expenditure and human capital is the engine of growth."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research, "Increased investment in health, reduces mortality, raises return to education and affects income inequality. In such a framework we show that the cross-section earnings inequality is non-decreasing in the private share of health expenditure. We test this prediction empirically using a variable that proxies for the relative intensity of investments (private versus public) using vaccination data from the National Sample Survey Organization For 76 regions in India in the year 1986-87. We link this with region-specific expenditure inequality data for the period 1987-2012."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Our empirical findings, though focused on a specific health investment (vaccines), suggest that an increase in the share of the privately provided health care results in higher inequality."

For more information on this research see: Healthcare investment and income inequality. Journal of Health Economics, 2017;56():163-177. Journal of Health Economics can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Bv, PO Box 211, 1000 Ae Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Journal of Health Economics - www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-health-economics/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting A. Bhattacharjee, Delhi NCR, OP Jindal Global Business Sch, Sonipat 131001, Haryana, India. Additional authors for this research include J.K. Shin, C. Subramanian and S. Swaminathan (see also Health and Medicine - Healthcare Economics).

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.08.007. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Haryana, India, Asia, Healthcare Economics, Health and Medicine.

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