Effectiveness of Financing the Public Expenditures on Health Care
Effectiveness of Financing the Public Expenditures on Health Care

Author(s): Nadezhda Yashina, Sergey Petrov, Natalia N. PRONCHATOVA-RUBTSOVA, Oksana Kashina
Subject(s): Economic policy, Government/Political systems, Health and medicine and law, Public Finances
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: human capital; public health care; effectiveness; public finance management; complex indicator;
Summary/Abstract: The human capital and the person value are the main factors of economic growth and government prosperity in the knowledge-based economy. During the "age of human capital" in the study of public finance management issues, it is necessary to place emphasis on the person and his characteristics. Qualitative characteristics of the human capital are indicators of public health. Therefore, one of the most important state problems is the assessment of effectiveness of government expenditure on health care financing that is the aim of the paper. The complex indicator is based on specially criteria developed system (fertility, mortality, incidence, disability) that allows to create a numerical evaluation of health care public investment effectiveness and to draw conclusions about the quality of public health, the medical care development, training, medico-improving technologies in Russian Federations’ regions. The system of quantitative indices includes a group of health care resource provision indicators and a group of health care availability and quality indicators. Using the methods of economic, system analysis, mathematical statistics and solution optimization makes it possible to identify and select factors that affect the resource provision, accessibility and quality of health care. For technique approbation the official open databases of the Federal State Statistics Service, the Ministry of Finance and the Fund of obligatory medical insurance of the Russian Federation for 2015 have been used.

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