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What Should A Country Spend On Health Care?

William D. Savedoff , Senior partner at Social Insight.   

 Health Affairs, July/August 2007 - Volume 26, Number 4 Global Health
Financing 

doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.4.962 - Project HOPE 

Available online at:
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/26/4/962

".....Per capita health spending across countries ranges by more than
100 to 1, leading many people to ask, "What should a country spend on
health care?" This paper discusses four approaches to this question and
demonstrates how each approach, in effect, answers a slightly different
question, all of which are important to public policy decisions
regarding health care spending. The paper also addresses a commonly
cited World Health Organization statement that countries should spend 5
percent of national income on health care services..."

 
"....It is difficult to say what a country should spend on maintaining
and improving its population's health without knowing the challenges it
faces. The appropriate amount of spending in a country with a
malnourished population facing endemic malaria and an epidemic of
HIV/AIDS is likely to be different from one with limited infectious
disease and a high incidence of cancer and chronic conditions. So, to be
more complete, the question would have to be amended as follows: 

How much should my country spend on health, given our current
epidemiological profile?...."


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