dc.contributor.author | Osoro, Kennedy | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-13T05:59:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-10-13T05:59:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Osoro, Kennedy(2015). Macro-economic and public health expenditures in Kenya. International Journal of Education and Research, 3(9); PP.15-32 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ijern.com/journal/2015/September-2015/02.pdf | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/91963 | |
dc.description.abstract | The demographic, people’s working lives and habits currently experienced in Kenya dictates that
future public health care expenditure will be increasing, both as percentage of GDP and of total
government outlays. Furthermore, it is expected to continue growing to the next decade because of
the growing ageing populations and growing public expectations on the accessibility and quality of
care. In this paper we aimed to understand the trajectory of health expenditure and the factors
associated with the growth of total health expenditure in the country. We estimated the determinants
of aggregate health care expenditure function for Kenya by applying a co integration test on a time
series data from 1980-2012. We linked per capita income, exchange rates and total health personnel
in an econometric model, and it was apparent that the per capita income and exchange rates
explained the growing health care expenditure in Kenya well. | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en_US |
dc.subject | Healthcare expenditure, macro-economic, co integration, Kenya | en_US |
dc.title | Macro-economic and public health expenditures in Kenya | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.type.material | en_US | en_US |