Healthcare Financing and Health Outcomes: Analysis of Oil-Producing Countries in Africa

The major concern of the study is on healthcare financing and health outcomes in the major oil-producing countries in Africa. We used the data sorted from World Development Indicators (WDI) to identify the effect of four different health expenditures on the rate of mortalities on maternal, under-fiv...

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Autores principales:	Olaide Sekinat Opeloyeru, Nurudeen Abiodun Lawal, Kehinde Kabir Agbatogun
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Publicado:	Ziane Achour University of Djelfa 2021
Materias:	health outcome pollution life expectancy and government Social Sciences H Commerce HF1-6182
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6585c6e442dd49be9fd556fab3b572212021-12-02T18:53:23ZHealthcare Financing and Health Outcomes: Analysis of Oil-Producing Countries in Africa2676-184X2710-885610.48100/merj.2021.158https://doaj.org/article/6585c6e442dd49be9fd556fab3b572212021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://mer-j.com/merj/index.php/merj/article/view/158https://doaj.org/toc/2676-184Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2710-8856The major concern of the study is on healthcare financing and health outcomes in the major oil-producing countries in Africa. We used the data sorted from World Development Indicators (WDI) to identify the effect of four different health expenditures on the rate of mortalities on maternal, under-five, infant, neonatal and life expectancy at birth through random and fixed-effect models. This paper also takes cognizance of the environmental variable (pollution) that is common to the top 10 oil-producing countries in Africa. Our findings showed that high health expenditure from government, private and external sources improved health outcomes, while health expenditure from out of pocket is detrimental to health outcomes. Also, the environmental variable has a negative impact on life expectancy. The outcome of the paper indicated that there is a need to reduce environmental pollution, increase health expenditure from government, private, external sources and reduce out of pocket payments in the selected areas.Olaide Sekinat OpeloyeruNurudeen Abiodun LawalKehinde Kabir AgbatogunZiane Achour University of Djelfaarticlehealth outcomepollutionlife expectancy and governmentSocial SciencesHCommerceHF1-6182ARENمجلة بحوث الإدارة والاقتصاد, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 88-103 (2021)
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spellingShingle	health outcome pollution life expectancy and government Social Sciences H Commerce HF1-6182 Olaide Sekinat Opeloyeru Nurudeen Abiodun Lawal Kehinde Kabir Agbatogun Healthcare Financing and Health Outcomes: Analysis of Oil-Producing Countries in Africa
description	The major concern of the study is on healthcare financing and health outcomes in the major oil-producing countries in Africa. We used the data sorted from World Development Indicators (WDI) to identify the effect of four different health expenditures on the rate of mortalities on maternal, under-five, infant, neonatal and life expectancy at birth through random and fixed-effect models. This paper also takes cognizance of the environmental variable (pollution) that is common to the top 10 oil-producing countries in Africa. Our findings showed that high health expenditure from government, private and external sources improved health outcomes, while health expenditure from out of pocket is detrimental to health outcomes. Also, the environmental variable has a negative impact on life expectancy. The outcome of the paper indicated that there is a need to reduce environmental pollution, increase health expenditure from government, private, external sources and reduce out of pocket payments in the selected areas.
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author	Olaide Sekinat Opeloyeru Nurudeen Abiodun Lawal Kehinde Kabir Agbatogun
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title	Healthcare Financing and Health Outcomes: Analysis of Oil-Producing Countries in Africa
title_short	Healthcare Financing and Health Outcomes: Analysis of Oil-Producing Countries in Africa
title_full	Healthcare Financing and Health Outcomes: Analysis of Oil-Producing Countries in Africa
title_fullStr	Healthcare Financing and Health Outcomes: Analysis of Oil-Producing Countries in Africa
title_full_unstemmed	Healthcare Financing and Health Outcomes: Analysis of Oil-Producing Countries in Africa
title_sort	healthcare financing and health outcomes: analysis of oil-producing countries in africa
publisher	Ziane Achour University of Djelfa
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/6585c6e442dd49be9fd556fab3b57221
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Healthcare Financing and Health Outcomes: Analysis of Oil-Producing Countries in Africa

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