Synergy of health cost, globalization and good health: Evidence from emerging economies

IF 1.7 Q2 GEOGRAPHY

Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI:10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100183

Md. Mominur Rahman, Tasneem Islam Dyuti, Mohammad Tareque

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Abstract

This study evaluates the influence of healthcare expenditures and globalization on health outcomes in BRICS nations from 2000 to 2023. Employing a fixed effects model (FEM), we analyze the impact of current health costs (CHC) and out-of-pocket expenditures (OPC) on good health (GH), while investigating the moderating influence of globalization (GL). The findings demonstrate that both CHC and OPC exert a positive and significant influence on GH, indicating that increased health expenditures enhance health outcomes. Globalization exerts a detrimental moderating influence on the correlation between health expenditures and positive health outcomes, indicating that globalization may introduce elements like economic volatility and inequality that diminish the efficacy of health spending. This study enhances the literature by including globalization into the Health Production Function model and providing novel insights into the issues encountered by emerging nations in optimizing health investments. Policy implications underscore the necessity for extensive healthcare changes that tackle both the immediate effects of health expenditure and the wider structural challenges shaped by globalization.

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卫生成本、全球化和良好健康的协同作用：来自新兴经济体的证据

本研究评估了2000年至2023年金砖国家医疗支出和全球化对健康结果的影响。本文采用固定效应模型（FEM）分析了当前健康成本（CHC）和自付支出（OPC）对良好健康（GH）的影响，同时考察了全球化（GL）的调节作用。研究结果表明，CHC和OPC对GH均有显著的正向影响，表明卫生支出的增加可提高健康结果。全球化对卫生支出与积极健康结果之间的相关性产生了不利的调节作用，表明全球化可能引入经济波动和不平等等因素，从而削弱卫生支出的效力。本研究通过将全球化纳入卫生生产函数模型，并对新兴国家在优化卫生投资方面遇到的问题提供了新的见解，从而增强了文献。政策影响突出表明，必须进行广泛的卫生保健改革，以解决卫生支出的直接影响和全球化形成的更广泛的结构性挑战。

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Regional Science Policy and Practice GEOGRAPHY-

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期刊介绍： Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP) is the official policy and practitioner orientated journal of the Regional Science Association International. It is an international journal that publishes high quality papers in applied regional science that explore policy and practice issues in regional and local development. It welcomes papers from a range of academic disciplines and practitioners including planning, public policy, geography, economics and environmental science and related fields. Papers should address the interface between academic debates and policy development and application. RSPP provides an opportunity for academics and policy makers to develop a dialogue to identify and explore many of the challenges facing local and regional economies.