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The Effects of Water Access on Government Health Care Spending Worldwide
The Effects of Water Access on Government Health Care Spending Worldwide
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Furman, Daniel
Morjaria, Mala
Roseen, Dillon
Morjaria, Mala
Roseen, Dillon
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Abstract
Water access worldwide affects numerous areas of personal
health. This paper attempts to analyze the effects that water access has on
total government health care expenditure in different countries. By utilizing
a cross-sectional analysis on data from over 80 countries, we provide a
unique view of how lack of water access may burden health care. This paper
grounds its hypothesis in Pareto economic welfare policy, which helps explain
the relationship between these variables. In addition to water access, we
utilized additional independent variables such as private health care
spending and tobacco use and a dummy variable adjusting for differences in
developed and non-developed countries. These variables enabled us to gain a
holistic view of the effects of water access on health care spending. Our
study is founded upon existing economic theory and is thus related to other
empirical works. It is unique in the way in which health care spending is
explained using distinct variables and data sets.
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2014-12
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Undergraduate Research Paper