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Social accounting matrix and the effects of economic reform on health price index and household expenditures: Evidence from Iran
Background: Socioeconomic indicators are the main factors that affect health outcome. Health price index (HPI) and households living costs (HLC) are affected by economic reform. This study aimed at examining the effect of subsidy targeting plan (STP) on HPI and HLC. Methods: The social accounting ma...
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Iran University of Medical Sciences
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5804428/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29445697 http://dx.doi.org/10.14196/mjiri.31.68 |
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author | Keshavarz, Khosro Najafi, Behzad Andayesh, Yaghob Rezapour, Aziz Abolhallaj, Masoud Sarabi Asiabar, Ali Hashemi Meshkini, Amir Sanati, Ehsan Mirian, Iman Nikfar, Shekoofeh Lotfi, Farhad |
author_facet | Keshavarz, Khosro Najafi, Behzad Andayesh, Yaghob Rezapour, Aziz Abolhallaj, Masoud Sarabi Asiabar, Ali Hashemi Meshkini, Amir Sanati, Ehsan Mirian, Iman Nikfar, Shekoofeh Lotfi, Farhad |
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description | Background: Socioeconomic indicators are the main factors that affect health outcome. Health price index (HPI) and households living costs (HLC) are affected by economic reform. This study aimed at examining the effect of subsidy targeting plan (STP) on HPI and HLC. Methods: The social accounting matrix was used to study the direct and indirect effects of STP. We chose 11 health related goods and services including insurance, compulsory social security services, hospital services, medical and dental services, other human health services, veterinary services, social services, environmental health services, laundry& cleaning and dyeing services, cosmetic and physical health services, and pharmaceutical products in the social accounting matrix to examine the health price index. Data were analyzed by the I-O&SAM software. Results: Due to the subsidy release on energy, water, and bread prices, we found that (i) health related goods and services groups’ price index rose between 33.43% and 77.3%, (ii) the living cost index of urban households increased between 48.75% and 58.21%, and (iii) the living cost index of rural households grew between 53.51% and 68.23%. The results demonstrated that the elimination of subsidy would have negative effects on health subdivision and households’ costs such that subsidy elimination increased the health prices index and the household living costs, especially among low-income families. The STP had considerable effects on health subdivision price index. Conclusion: The elimination or reduction of energy carriers and basic commodities subsidies have changed health price and households living cost index. Therefore, the policymakers should consider controlling the price of health sectors, price fluctuations and shocks. |
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spelling | pubmed-58044282018-02-14 Social accounting matrix and the effects of economic reform on health price index and household expenditures: Evidence from Iran Keshavarz, Khosro Najafi, Behzad Andayesh, Yaghob Rezapour, Aziz Abolhallaj, Masoud Sarabi Asiabar, Ali Hashemi Meshkini, Amir Sanati, Ehsan Mirian, Iman Nikfar, Shekoofeh Lotfi, Farhad Med J Islam Repub Iran Original Article Background: Socioeconomic indicators are the main factors that affect health outcome. Health price index (HPI) and households living costs (HLC) are affected by economic reform. This study aimed at examining the effect of subsidy targeting plan (STP) on HPI and HLC. Methods: The social accounting matrix was used to study the direct and indirect effects of STP. We chose 11 health related goods and services including insurance, compulsory social security services, hospital services, medical and dental services, other human health services, veterinary services, social services, environmental health services, laundry& cleaning and dyeing services, cosmetic and physical health services, and pharmaceutical products in the social accounting matrix to examine the health price index. Data were analyzed by the I-O&SAM software. Results: Due to the subsidy release on energy, water, and bread prices, we found that (i) health related goods and services groups’ price index rose between 33.43% and 77.3%, (ii) the living cost index of urban households increased between 48.75% and 58.21%, and (iii) the living cost index of rural households grew between 53.51% and 68.23%. The results demonstrated that the elimination of subsidy would have negative effects on health subdivision and households’ costs such that subsidy elimination increased the health prices index and the household living costs, especially among low-income families. The STP had considerable effects on health subdivision price index. Conclusion: The elimination or reduction of energy carriers and basic commodities subsidies have changed health price and households living cost index. Therefore, the policymakers should consider controlling the price of health sectors, price fluctuations and shocks. Iran University of Medical Sciences 2017-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5804428/ /pubmed/29445697 http://dx.doi.org/10.14196/mjiri.31.68 Text en © 2017 Iran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Keshavarz, Khosro Najafi, Behzad Andayesh, Yaghob Rezapour, Aziz Abolhallaj, Masoud Sarabi Asiabar, Ali Hashemi Meshkini, Amir Sanati, Ehsan Mirian, Iman Nikfar, Shekoofeh Lotfi, Farhad Social accounting matrix and the effects of economic reform on health price index and household expenditures: Evidence from Iran |
title | Social accounting matrix and the effects of economic reform on health price index and household expenditures: Evidence from Iran |
title_full | Social accounting matrix and the effects of economic reform on health price index and household expenditures: Evidence from Iran |
title_fullStr | Social accounting matrix and the effects of economic reform on health price index and household expenditures: Evidence from Iran |
title_full_unstemmed | Social accounting matrix and the effects of economic reform on health price index and household expenditures: Evidence from Iran |
title_short | Social accounting matrix and the effects of economic reform on health price index and household expenditures: Evidence from Iran |
title_sort | social accounting matrix and the effects of economic reform on health price index and household expenditures: evidence from iran |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5804428/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29445697 http://dx.doi.org/10.14196/mjiri.31.68 |
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