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Public Expenditures in Health. Main Principles. Establish Market Failures Identify beneficiaries of expenditures Balance potential benefits with ability to deliver services. Health - Market Failures. Public goods (pest control, sanitation, health education)
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Main Principles • Establish Market Failures • Identify beneficiaries of expenditures • Balance potential benefits with ability to deliver services
Health - Market Failures • Public goods (pest control, sanitation, health education) • Externalities (infectious disease control) • Information advantage of doctors • Insurance
Health - equity concerns • Inequities in health status • Inequities in benefits of services
The poor are sicker than other people: Under two mortality by “wealth”- Brazil, 1996
Health - Problems of Implementation • Management challenge • Personnel placement • Quality of services • Conscientious providers • Maintenance of facilities • Political Influence
Percentage of health centers without doctors by province: Indonesia
Absenteeism in primary facilities % absent
Health: Complementarity/ conflict between goals • Public goods - strong complementarity • Primary health care - modest efficiency effects (varies), potentially high equity effects, difficult management • Hospitals - high efficiency, high potential but low actual equity effects, easier management(?)
In Brazil, the poor have worse sanitation facilities… Percent of households with no sanitation facilities
Health: Complementarity/ conflict between goals • Public goods - strong complementarity • Primary health care - modest efficiency effects (varies), potentially high equity effects, difficult management • Hospitals - high efficiency, high potential but low actual equity effects, easier management(?)
Philippines: Effect of public medical care Poor area Not-so-poor area
Health: Complementarity/ conflict between goals • Public goods - strong complementarity • Primary health care - modest efficiency effects (varies), potentially high equity effects, difficult management • Hospitals - high efficiency, high potential but low actual equity effects, easier management(?)