DETERMINANTS OF HOUSEHOLD HEALTH EXPENDITURE: CASE OF URBAN ORISSA

Sen Bhabesh and Himanshu Rout ()

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Abstract: Little attention has been given to the micro aspects of health research by the researchers, government, policy makers and development planners. In this connection, the objective of the paper is to increase awareness – not only among health researchers but also among policy makers and practitioners who use health research findings – about the influence of socioeconomic characteristics in terms of income and education on household health expenditures, as well as to encourage improved approaches. The study finds that income of the household has significant influence on its health expenditure where as the effect of education is insignificant. From the study it is found that as disposable income of the household increases, individual takes more care of his life, hence, health expenditure increases but at a particular level of income, due to high life risk, health expenditure becomes independent of income and perfectly elastic, which is termed as “High Life Risk Path (HLRP)”. The health expenditure during HLRP depends on household’s past saving and loanable capacity.

Keywords: Household Health Expenditure; Urban Orissa; Income; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 C21 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Published in Utkal Economic Papers 1.XIII(2007): pp. 17-23

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