Financing health development projects: some macro-economic considerations.
The paper briefly discusses the importance of macro-economic policy in health sector financing. The ways in which monetary and fiscal policy (macro-economic policy) affect interest rates, price levels and aggregate output are presented. The main portion of the paper considers a variety of methods for public financing of health and development projects. These approaches are analyzed in light of distributional and efficiency considerations. One way of increasing health sector resources is through reallocation from other sectors of the economy. The potential for redistribution from the defense to the health service industry is briefly considered.
D003906:Developing Countries; D005251:Fees, Medical; D005380:Financing, Government; D005381:Financing, Organized; D006295:Health Resources / Q000191:economics*; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans