Améliorer la santé dans les pays en développement – Qu’aimerait-on savoir ? Quatre questions pour des priorités
Abstracts
Last decades were marked by significant progress as regards health in the developing countries, although large disparities between countries remain. But the improvement of health in the developing world is still confronted with many challenges for which there are important deficits of knowledge for several “great issues”, some of them challenging particularly health economists. This article is focused on four: (i) What would one like to still know regarding the relations between health and growth? (ii) Which are the main implications which emerge from “the fetal origins hypothesis”? (iii) Which are the hot topics which it would be advisable to look further for a better understanding of the relationships between institutions, incentives, efficiency and modification of household behaviors as regards healthcare demand? (iv) Does distribution of international aid to health, very important in volume and expressed as a percentage of the health expenditure, correspond to the needs, and really increases the available resources for the financing of health? The article shows in what the remaining areas of darkness harm the effectiveness and the efficiency of the policies and programs devoted to health improvement. Reducing these deficits of knowledge, and disseminating the related results of research is in fine an issue of producing a global public good.
Index terms
JEL Codes:
F35 - Foreign Aid, H40 - General, H51 - Government Expenditures and Health, I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior, I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health, O40 - GeneralReferences
Bibliographical reference
Jacky Mathonnat, “Améliorer la santé dans les pays en développement – Qu’aimerait-on savoir ? Quatre questions pour des priorités”, Économie publique/Public economics, 28-29 | 2012, 23-45.
Electronic reference
Jacky Mathonnat, “Améliorer la santé dans les pays en développement – Qu’aimerait-on savoir ? Quatre questions pour des priorités”, Économie publique/Public economics [Online], 28-29 | 2012/1-2, Online since 20 December 2012, connection on 09 December 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/economiepublique/8809; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/economiepublique.8809
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