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Global Health Economics and
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Empirical specification of healthcare resource

distribution based on the law of competitor
distribution

Mihajlo Jakovljevic 1,2,3† * , Elena Yagudina 4 , Emil Valeev 4 ,
and Igor Kirshin 5,6† *
1 Section of Social and Economic Sciences, UNESCO-TWAS, Trieste, Italy
2 Faculty, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong, China
3 Department of Global Health Economics and Policy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of
Kragujevac, Serbia
4 Department of Human Resources Management, Institute of Management, Economics and Finance,
Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russia
5 Higher School of Business, Institute of Management, Economics and Finance, Kazan (Volga
Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russia
6 Department of General Hygiene, Preventive Medicine Faculty, Kazan State Medical University,
Kazan, Russia

† These authors contributed equally
to this work. Abstract
*Corresponding authors:
Mihajlo Jakovljevic Sustainable development relies on the efficient resource distribution among economic
(sidartagothama@gmail.com; agents, requiring an integrated approach. A key principle of this concept is reducing
Igor Kirshin inequality through more equitable resource distribution. This study examines the
(igor.kirchine@kpfu.ru)
distribution of healthcare resources across countries amid rising intercountry disparities.
Citation: Jakovljevic, M., The proposed hypothesis suggests that healthcare resource allocation follows a non-
Yagudina, E., Valeev, E. &
Kirshin, I. (2025). Empirical random pattern shaped by competitive dynamics. Using the law of competitor distribution,
specification of healthcare resource this paper models intercountry resource distribution through the “generalized theory of
distribution based on the law of competition” to analyze rank-size dependencies. The World Bank and Organization for
competitor distribution. Global
Health Econ Sustain, 3(3):232-245. Economic Co-operation and Development data on health statistics were used as the
https://doi.org/10.36922/ghes.8283 initial dataset for constructing the rank-size dependencies of the of resource distribution.
The findings indicate that the empirical distribution of healthcare resources deviates from
Received: December 29, 2024
the Pareto distribution law, reflecting the stochastic multiplicative nature of competition.
Revised: March 11, 2025 When the empirical distribution was compared with the Pareto distribution, an uneven
Accepted: March 27, 2025 distribution of resources in the competition process was revealed. Further, the power law
poorly approximated the size of the empirical distributions at both low and high ranks. To
Published online: April 23, 2025
reduce inequality in the distribution of healthcare resources, the study advocates for an
Copyright: © 2025 Author(s). integrated development approach leveraging digital technologies.
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published maps and institutional Competition for scarce resources is one of the basic laws of economic development
affiliations. (Shuai et al., 2023). Modern methods and forms of competition not only determine

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