تحليل العلاقة السببية بين الانفاق الصحي الحكومي و الخدمات الصحية في اقليم كوردستان-العراق للمدة (2005-2020)‎

Abstract EN

This research aims to analyze the causal relationship between government health spending and some variables related to health services in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq for the period (2005-2020) using quarterly data and using stability tests that include the developed Fuller Dickie test (ADF), the Philips-Peron test (PP), and the integration test According to Johansen-Jssels, the Echanger causality test.

The problem of this study lies in the lack of attention and focus on the health sector and giving the importance it deserves in investment programs and annual financial budgets, which leads to a decline in health services, which prompted this research to know the nature of the causal relationship between government spending and health services in the region As for the methodology used in this study, the theoretical method was used with the quantitative method in obtaining and analyzing the results using the Eviews 10 program.

The research concluded that the best slowdown period is the fifth and that the sixth complementarity relationship is the greatest value according to the Johansen-Jassels test, and the causality test showed that the direction of all research variables was reciprocal, i.

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a causal relationship between government health spending and some variables related to health services, including a number Hospitals, the number of hospital beds, and the number of health centers, except for the variables related to the number of doctors and operating theaters, As the relationship was one-way, and government health spending had an effect only on the number of operating theaters, as well as the research showed the ence of a reciprocal relationship between the number of doctors and government health spending.

The most important recommendations are to reconsider the priorities of the agreement on the health sector in accordance with the currently available resources in order to improve the general health of the population, and to achieve justice in the distribution of health services.