## What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy: A Primer

_IMF Working Papers, July 1, 2000_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: William C. Hsiao
- Published: July 1, 2000
- Series: IMF Working Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451855807.001

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### Purpose and audience
- A primer aimed to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need when addressing health sector policy issues that have significant macroeconomic implications.
- Emphasizes that health sector policy issues can affect equity and growth and are fundamental to strategies of poverty reduction.

### Core themes and messages
- Highlights appropriate roles for the state and market in health care financing and provision.
- Identifies situations in which macroeconomists should engage health sector specialists in policy formulation exercises.
- Illustrates different health policy issues that confront countries at alternative stages of economic development and the range of appropriate policy options.

### Key findings and emphases
- Health sector policies have direct macroeconomic implications, including impacts on equity, growth, and poverty reduction strategies.
- The balance between state and market roles in financing and provision of health care is central to effective policy.
- Collaboration between macroeconomists and health sector specialists is necessary in certain policy formulation contexts.
- Policy options should be tailored to a country’s stage of economic development and the specific health policy challenges it faces.

### Publication and metadata
- Author: William C. Hsiao
- Date: July 1, 2000
- Series: Working Paper No. 2000/136
- Issue: 136
- Volume: 2000
- Pages: 69
- ISBN: 9781451855807
- ISSN: 1018-5941
- Stock No: WPIEA1362000
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451855807.001
- Subjects: Expenditure, Health, Health care, Health care spending, Social assistance spending, Tax allowances, Taxes
- Keywords: expenditure inflation, Global, good health, government expenditure, Health care, Health care spending, health economics, health expenditure, health practitioner, health sector, health status, health system, private sector, Social assistance spending, Tax allowances, WP

*Source: IMF Working Paper — "What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy: A Primer" by William C. Hsiao, July 1, 2000; Working Paper No. 2000/136.*

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