Conceptualizing monetary benchmarks for health investments toward poverty reduction in low- and lower middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT: Public spending can improve population well-being, for example, by averting or reducing poverty. We aim to conceptualize monetary benchmarks for health sector investments oriented towards poverty alleviation in low- and lower middle-income countries. These benchmarks are meant to indicate the approximate range of health sector costs incurred to avert a single case of poverty across countries. Such conceptualizations could help identify the health interventions that are worthwhile investing in from financial risk protection and social welfare standpoints. We sourced secondary data from the World Bank for low-income and lower-middle-income countries over 2002-2019, including: per capita government expenditures on health, the proportion of a country's population living under the international

SUBMITTER: Chakrabarti A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021786 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature