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The Role of Policy and Institutions on Health Spending.
- Source :
- Health Economics; Jul2017, Vol. 26 Issue 7, p834-843, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- This paper investigates the impact of policies and institutions on health expenditures for a large panel of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries for the period of 2000-2010. A set of 20 policy and institutional indicators developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are integrated into a theoretically motivated econometric framework, alongside control variables related to demographic (dependency ratio) and non-demographic (income, prices and technology) drivers of health expenditures per capita. Although a large share of cross-country differences in public health expenditures can be explained by demographic and economic factors (around 71%), cross-country variations in policies and institutions also have a significant influence, explaining most of the remaining difference in public health spending (23%). Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10579230
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 123395981
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3410