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040			_aES-MaIEF _bspa _cES-MaIEF
100	1		_970813 _aVadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya
245		0	_aCan bigger health budgets cushion pandemics? _ban empirical test of COVID-19 deaths across the world _c Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati, Arusha Cooray and Indra de Soysa
500			_aApéndice.
500			_aResumen.
504			_aBibliografía.
520			_aHow has public healthcare spending prepared countries for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic? Arguably, spending is the primary policy tool of governments for providing effective health. We argue that the effectiveness of spending for reducing COVID deaths is conditional on the existence of healthcare equity and lower political corruption because the health sector is particularly susceptible to political spending. Our results, obtained using ordinary least squares and two-stage least squares estimations, suggest that higher spending targeted at reducing inequitable access to health has reduced COVID deaths. Consistent with the findings of others, our results indirectly suggest that health spending is necessary, but not sufficient unless accompanied by good governance and equitable access. Equitable health systems ease the effects of COVID presumably because they allow states to reach and treat people more effectively. Spending aimed at increasing health system capacity by increasing access thus seems a sound strategy for fighting the spread of disease, ultimately benefiting us all.
650			_aPANDEMIAS _967998
650			_aCORONAVIRUS _967999
650			_aASISTENCIA SANITARIA _931104
650		4	_aGASTOS SANITARIOS _944933
650		4	_aEFICACIA _943268
650			_aIGUALDAD _945530
650		4	_aCORRUPCION _941326
700	1		_970814 _aCooray, Arusha
700	1		_970815 _aSoysa, Indra de
773	0		_9169739 _oOP 1793/2023/1 _tJournal of Public Policy _w(IEF)17584 _x 0143-814X _g v. 43, n. 1, March 2023, p. 33-58
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