Study and analysis of trends in public spending on health and its impact on the development of health sector indicators in Iraq for the period (2004-2022)

Abstract

Various governments seek through public spending to achieve a set of goals, whether economic or social, and therefore seek through one of its components, especially social spending, to raise the level of the health sector, and Iraq is one of the countries that places it as a major requirement of sustainable development to influence its social dimensions, especially health, to advance the level of Indicators of the health sector in the country. The research relied on the descriptive analytical approach in presenting data and analyzing the results, As it was concluded that the weak percentages of public spending directed towards the health sector, as well as the decrease in the percentage of this type of spending compared to actual public spending, was reflected in the rates of development in its indicators and thus the failure to achieve what the government seeks to raise the level of health services and improve the reality of this sector .