پديد آورندگان :
رضاپور، عزیز نويسنده Assistant Professor, Health Economics Department, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Health Management & Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Rezapour, Aziz , سرابی آسیابر، علی نويسنده Master of Science in Public Administration, Health Management & Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Sarabi Asiabar, Ali , عبادی فردآذر، امیرعلی نويسنده General Medicine Student, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Ebadi Fardazar, Amir Ali , باقری، سعید نويسنده Ph.D. Student in Health Economics, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Bagheri, Saeid , یوسف زاده، نگار نويسنده Master of Science in Health Services Management, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Yusefzadeh, Negar , مزدكی، علیرضا نويسنده Master of Science in Health Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mazdaki, Alireza , اسدي، صديقه نويسنده , , غفوری، محمد حسین نويسنده Master of Science in Health Economics, Health Management & Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Ghafoori, Mohammad Hossein
كليدواژه :
families , Health care expenditure , Income effect , iran , Tehran , اثر درآمدي , تهران , ايران , خانوارها , مخارج مراقبت سلامت
چكيده لاتين :
Background and Aim: With the assumption that health is as one of the luxury goods, therefore making efforts in reducing health spending and inflation in this section will be ineffective.
But if health is an essential service, then in the national level for better redistribution of the resources and financial protection of the households against the health expenditures will be needed. The main objective of this study was determination of income impact of health care expenditures in Tehran household in years 2011-2012.
Materials and Methods: This study was a population based survey. The instrument of data gathering was a "WHO questionnaire" which was integrated by interview with an acquainted person in each one of the 792 families who live in Tehran. The least ordinary squares, Granger causality test, Breusch-Pagan-Godfery and White heteroskedasticity test were used for data analysis. Eviews 8 software was used for running the tests.
Results: The results showed that heath is a cause for increasing income but the converse is not true. Otherwise, Health with income elasticity equal to 0.25 is an essential service, and is not perceived as luxury goods. Moreover results represented that income is not a good variable for rationalizing the variation of health expenditures.
Conclusion: Health was an essential good, and although income changes affect the expenditures of health care, but the sensitivity is not high and recommended that health policy-makers should in adoption policies such as tariff increases do a comprehensive survey because prices increase are borne by the consumers.