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Dr Mojtaba Almasi, Mr Kiumars Sohaili, Ehsan Rostami, Ehsan Hemmati Dinarvand,
Volume 2, Issue 4 (2-2019)
Abstract
Introduction: Increase human capital and quality of human resources by increase health level one of the important factors for economic growth, that in constant level of inputs increase productivity.
Method: This study uses panel data of 30 provinces over 2005 -2013 that obtained from regional data of statistical center of Iran, estimate Mankiw, Romer and Weil model by generalized method of moments and panel data. Data analysis was performed using Spss22 and Eviews8 software.
Result: The results show that public health expenditures have a more effect on the labor productivity than private health expenditures, so that for 100 rials the increase in private and public health expenditures, respectively, was significantly more than 0.75 rials and 27.4 Rial increases.
Conclusion: by considering that the private health expenditure has treatment aspect and public expenditure has sanitary aspect, and because the heath expenditure has high cost for some of household, government must reduce the cost of health so that increase the labor productivity.
Ms Samaneh Mirzaei, Mr Adel Eftekhari, Mrs Fatemeh Ghazanfari, Mahmood Kazeminasab, Roohangiz Norouzinia,
Volume 2, Issue 4 (2-2019)
Abstract
Introduction: Increase of the human capital and the quality of human resources due to the development of health level is one of the important factors in economic growth, which leads to productivity increase at constant levels of inputs.
Methods: In this study the panel data of 30 provinces was used in 2005 -2013. These data were obtained from the regional data of statistics center of Iran using the estimates of Mankiw, Romer, and Weil models by data panel method and generalized method of moments. Data analysis was performed using Spss22 and Eviews 8 software.
Results: The results showed that public health expenditures had a greater effect on the labor productivity than the private health expenditures. In this regard, per 100 rials increase in private and public health expenditures, the productivity increases by 0.75 rials and 27.4 rial, respectively.
Conclusion: The private health expenditures has treatment applications and public health expenditure has sanitary applications. Furthermore, the heath expenditure has high cost for some families. SO, the government must reduce the total cost of health to increase the labor productivity.
