The International Relationship Between Health Spending And Infant Mortality Literature Study
The International Relationship Between Health Spending and Infant Mortality
Module Code: ECON 20170
Name: Sam Doggett
OECD Data Sets: - Total health expenditure per capita, US$ PPP
Infant mortality, Deaths per 1 000 live births Introduction
In this paper I will aim to prove that there is a link between a countries spending on health and its child mortality rate. I will do this by studying examples from a developing country, Somalia, and a developed country, Norway. In the literature review I will look at what each country could invest in health relative to their GDP. After this, in the data analysis portion of the paper, I will show the relationship between this spending and child mortality rates and prove that the more you spend on …show more content…
Because of how little money they have most of these countries have decided to “focus on immunizable diseases and on oral rehydration therapy”(Hill & Pebley, 1989 pp658) However, while these children are not dying from diseases that they can be immunized against, such as tuberculosis and polio, they are dying from non-immunizable diseases. This is a cause again of not having the funds available to them to spend on building a broad based health service, which could help provide assistance and treatment for those who catch non-immunizable diseases. This, in turn, would help push child mortality rates down in the 3rd world. This shows us how much of an impact spending on health has on child mortality …show more content…
They developed at a high rate in an economic sense and the GDP’s of these countries continued to grow and grow. This led to the child mortality rates in these countries dropping hugely in comparison to the child mortality rates of the third world countries. This is because theses developed countries had far more money in their government budgets to spend on healthcare. Take the sample from above, where the GDP per capita in Somalia in 1980 was just US$99.12 compared to the princely sum of US$15,594.79 per capita in Norway in the same year. These huge GPD’s that developed countries possessed meant they could invest far more in their health systems and so the child mortality rates in these countries are far lower than those in the developing
Module Code: ECON 20170
Name: Sam Doggett
OECD Data Sets: - Total health expenditure per capita, US$ PPP
Infant mortality, Deaths per 1 000 live births Introduction
In this paper I will aim to prove that there is a link between a countries spending on health and its child mortality rate. I will do this by studying examples from a developing country, Somalia, and a developed country, Norway. In the literature review I will look at what each country could invest in health relative to their GDP. After this, in the data analysis portion of the paper, I will show the relationship between this spending and child mortality rates and prove that the more you spend on …show more content…
Because of how little money they have most of these countries have decided to “focus on immunizable diseases and on oral rehydration therapy”(Hill & Pebley, 1989 pp658) However, while these children are not dying from diseases that they can be immunized against, such as tuberculosis and polio, they are dying from non-immunizable diseases. This is a cause again of not having the funds available to them to spend on building a broad based health service, which could help provide assistance and treatment for those who catch non-immunizable diseases. This, in turn, would help push child mortality rates down in the 3rd world. This shows us how much of an impact spending on health has on child mortality …show more content…
They developed at a high rate in an economic sense and the GDP’s of these countries continued to grow and grow. This led to the child mortality rates in these countries dropping hugely in comparison to the child mortality rates of the third world countries. This is because theses developed countries had far more money in their government budgets to spend on healthcare. Take the sample from above, where the GDP per capita in Somalia in 1980 was just US$99.12 compared to the princely sum of US$15,594.79 per capita in Norway in the same year. These huge GPD’s that developed countries possessed meant they could invest far more in their health systems and so the child mortality rates in these countries are far lower than those in the developing