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International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS)-IJMAS |
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Issue |
Volume-4,Issue-5 ( May, 2018 ) | |||||||||
Paper Title |
Differential effect of Behavioral Risk Factors Gap on Size of Health Spending, Social Determinants, and Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases-Related Health Outcomes in Developing Countries | |||||||||
Author Name |
Omar B. Da’ar | |||||||||
Affilition |
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Health System & Quality Management, College of Public Health & Health Informatics, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Professional Studies, St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA | |||||||||
Pages |
10-19 | |||||||||
Abstract |
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are seriously affecting poor countries, posing challenges of double burden of communicable and NCDs diseases. This paper examined the behavioral risk factors, health spending gap and social determinants of health on burden of NCD-related health outcomes in developing countries. Using 2008 data from a sample 140 countries in six World Health Organization regions, I estimated an aggregate health production function. Results show tobacco use, pollution, urbanization, and prevalence of low birth weight significantly contribute to burden of NCD-related health outcomes in developing countries. The results demonstrate no statistical significance effect of alcohol use, obesity, literacy, and health spending on burden of NCDs. While health spending has no statistical significance, there is evidence of differential effect of behavioral risk factors on YLL, especially when countries are split based on size of health spending. Behavioral risk factors contribute more to burden of NCDs in relatively higher health spending developing countries as compared to low health spending countries. Furthermore, NCD-related health outcomes are on average highest in Eastern European region and lowest in Africa compared to other regions. The study controlled for potential endogeneity of health spending with health outcomes and found health spending to be exogenous. Keywords - Health spending, Behavioral risk factors, social determinants of health, Non-communicable diseases, Years of life lost, health outcomes, burden of NCDs, developing countries | |||||||||
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